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right privileges for " marrying out of meeting ?" Slie 

 who already sat in the front seats ? whose husband 

 now sat side by side with the head of the meeting, an 

 honored elder ? That long line of ancestral faithfulness 

 and honor in the belief and fellowship of Friends, 

 should it be broken oif and cease forever by the rebel- 

 lious act of licr son V Poor, dear woman ! it had come 

 to be a great concern upon her mind, and a bitter cross 

 to carry. 



It was but human tliat we should sympathize with 

 her struggles within these hei'editary bonds ; but for 

 all that it was natural for us to wish success in our 

 hearts to such a thoi'oughly Avell-appointed match. 

 Yet between Abby's high spirit and old ideas of pro- 

 priety, and Penn's affection for his parents and con- 

 scientious regard for his ancestral form of Christianity, 

 the issue seemed more than doubtful. But whither am 

 I wandering ? 



Let us hasten back to the leaf-cutter bee and her 

 nest-making. 



"About ten or a dozen cuttings are reqv;ired to form 

 one cell. Each cuttinof is bent into a curved form, and 

 pressed into the burrow in such a manner that the 

 pieces fit successively into or overlap one another, and 

 form a small thimble-shaped cell, which is narrowed at 

 one end, and gradually widened at the other until the 

 width equals half the length. In this the mother bee 

 puts a single egg and some bee-bread, a substance com- 

 posed of pollen mixed with honey. jSText she covers in 

 the opening with two or three circular pieces of leaf, so 



