his attention arrested by the following curious 

 circumstance: — A large wild Bee, he observed 

 to go into one of the Bee-hives, from which in 

 less than a minute he was expelled by three of 

 the hive Bees, who brought him out and left 

 him. The intruder, however, made a second 

 essay, and was again repulsed by the rightful 

 owners of the hive ; but notwithstanding the 

 two fair warnings he had received, he returned 

 a third time to the assault, and entered the 

 premises. The inhabitants, as it is con- 

 ceived, now thought it high time to punish 

 the offender for his temerity, which they did, 

 as four of them brought him out dead ; and 

 having laid him at the extremity of the stone 

 on which the hive stood, returned to their 

 habitation. 



Anecdote of Bees increasing a Curate's 

 Stipend. 



A French bishop, being about to make 

 his annual visitation, sent word to a certain 

 curate, whose ecclesiastical benefice was ex- 

 tremely trifling, that he meant to dine with 



