ORDER VI."— VEIN-WINGED INSECTS. 293 



and because the mead manufactured for domestic use is 

 both healthful and refreshing, and all who keep bees should 

 know how to make it. "The laborer is worthy of his 

 hire," and nothing tends more to the encouragement of do- 

 mestic industry than the certain prospect of abundant re- 

 ward. He who made all nature beauty to man's eye and 

 music to his ear, also placed him in the midst of creatures 

 whose lives are devoted solely to minister to his taste and 

 gratify his palate, and thus for all his care and protection to 

 return an exquisitely grateful and sutTicient reward. 



