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Bees to come into the tree. Thus they 

 seemed to have concluded an offensive and 

 defensive alHance with each other. That al- 

 most all the negroes considered this tree as 

 sacred, is not to be wondered at : the same 

 would probably have been the case in many 

 parts of Europe. 



Affection of Bees. 



An elderly lady at Nantes, who had an 

 jestate in the neighbourhood of that town, 

 where she used generally to pass the summer, 

 had a remarkable partiality for Bees, and 

 kept a great number of them upon her estate. 

 She took great pleasure in attending these 

 little insects. Towards the end of May, 

 1777, this lady, having been taken ill, was 

 conveyed to Nantes, where she died a few 

 days after. On the day when she was to be 

 interred, an enormous number of Bees made 

 their appearance in the house where the body 

 lay, and settling upon the coffin, would not 

 be driven away. A friend of the deceased, 

 wishing to ascertain whether these were the 

 same Bees that she had taken such tender 



