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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 sufficient reward. 
