22© THE BEE, OR Feb. 9, 



" haps a family, from the commilTion of gnilt, from an 

 " ignominious denth, and perhaps from eternal perdi- 

 "tion." Never was a day bt-tter begun ; the confciouf- 

 nefs of having performed fuch an aftioii, whenever it re- 

 curs to the i;:ind of a reafonable being, muft be attended 

 with pleafure, and that felf-complacencv and fecret ap- 

 probation, which is more defirable than gold, and all 

 the pleafures of the earth. 



I'd the Editor of the Bee. 



Sir, . 

 "^Vhether, as a young obferver in tliat diflertatlon af- 

 ferts, the mole, by a fenle of inllinfl;, purfues any 

 particular worm through the earth, or not, I will not 

 here attempt to prove, a$ the talk appears to me too 

 diflicult ; though, from what is there laid, it might at 

 firft fight appear to be fo, from the mole difappearing, 

 and retiring, as difappointed. But not one word is faid, 

 whether the mole was near the furface of the earth, at, 

 or ne.ar the place where ^he worm rofe. 



That the \yorm rofe to efcape its purfuer, or in other 

 words, its enemy, whatever means were ufed to follow 

 it, whether that particular worm was purfued or not, 

 is certain ; as I think I can e-ifily demonilrate from the 

 following fimple fact, which will alfo folve a young ob- 

 fervcr's difficulty of comprehending by what means the 

 worm is made fenlible of its danger. 



Being, when a boy, very partial to the amufement 

 of angling, and frequently at a lofs for want of worms, 

 I was often reduced to the neceflity of digging them 

 up. Once, when employed in this toilfome bufinefs, 

 as to me it was, I was accofted by an old mole-catcher, 

 nearly as follows ; and fince that, by following liis in- 

 4tru£uion, I have obtained as many worms in one hour 

 93 I could before in a whole day. 



Take a pretty thick long flick, a dung fork, or a 

 fpade, infi^rt it m a flanting diredtiou into the earth, in 



