90 BEES. 



expresses himself on this subject in the fol- 

 lowing lines : 



-So work the honey Bees; 



Creatures, that, by a rule in nature, teach 

 The art of order to a peopled kingdom. 

 They have a king, and officers of sort ; 

 Where some, like magistrates, correct at home; 

 •Others, like merchants, venture trades abroad ; 

 Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, 

 Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds, 

 Which pillage they with merry march bring 



home 

 To the tent royal of their emperor, 

 Who, busied in his majesty, surveys 

 The singing mason building roofs of gold ; 

 The civil citizens kneading up the honey ; 

 The poor mechanic porters crowding in 

 Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate; 

 The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, 

 Delivering o'er to executors pale 

 The lazy yawning drone." 



Remarkable instance of forbearance, and sub- 

 sequent punishment, of a migratory Bee. 



A GENTLEMAN, in the month of Septem- 

 ber 1810, walking in his flower garden, had 



