INSTINCT IN ANIMALS. 187 



versed before through a mountainous and in- 

 tricate country, intersected by streams, and in 

 so short a period that he could not have made 

 one false turn. His not having been stopped on 

 the road was thought to be owing to the cir- 

 cumstance of his having been formerly used to 

 whip criminals upon, which was known to the 

 peasants of Spain, who have a great horror of 

 such asses, by the holes in his ears, and to which 

 the persons flogged were tied. This curious 

 anecdote of instinct was told me by my late 

 friend, Edward Hawke Locker, Esq., who was 

 at Gibraltar at the time, and was Secretary to 

 Lord Exmouth, the Commander-in-Chief of the 

 Mediterranean squadron. 



But to return to the instincts of bees, one of 

 which leads them to collect honey from flowers, 

 even as soon as a young bee leaves the hive for 

 the first time. Another instinct leads them to 

 prepare royal cells, and to bring up young queen- 

 bees by a peculiar mode of feeding them, thus 

 converting a working-bee grub into a queen. 

 It is also a curious fact that, when cells are 

 wanted, the bees construct them, not leaving 

 the hive to collect honey. At other times, each 

 bee appears to have its different work to perform. 



