“She’s off —the ‘Beehive’s guisin’,” shouted Smithson, and off we dashed, helter-skelter, arriving breathless, but in capital time to see a grand eruption."
Georgina Synge
A Tale: A Nighttime Visitor — Synge c. 1890
"There's a wild beast outside!" I cried," and it's trying to get in—what shall we do!"