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care of when living, repaired immediately 

 to the estate, where he found all the hives 

 emptied of their inhabitants. 



In the spring before the flowers are blown, 

 or in autumn when they are all gone off, the 

 Bees being at a loss for honey, endeavour to 

 steal from other stocks, and on these occa- 

 sions such fierce wars often ensue between 

 the contending parties, that the ground be- 

 fore the hive is found strewed with thousands 

 of dead Bees. 



Ingenuity of Bees in getting rid of the 

 carcass of a Snail, which had intruded 

 itself into their Hive, from that instruc 

 live and pleasing work, Spectacle db 

 LA Nature. 



A FEW days since (observes the author) 

 a snail took it into its head to steal into the 

 glass hive in my window. There was no 

 entrance to pass through but the proper one, 

 and in the animal went. The porters re- 

 ceived him very rudely at the gate ; and the 

 first attack they made upon him with their 

 h3 



