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prevent the discharge of this office, the working bees, becoming 

 aware, as it is alleged an-1 believed, of her sterility, decline to la- 

 bour as heretofore for her accommodation, " foreknowing," says one 

 of Ihe writers of authority on bees, " that there are to be no eggs !" 

 Again, should there be too many female bees in the hive, the work- 

 ing bees kill some of them off to prevent jealousy , or the loo fre- 

 quent and expensive emigrations, which would take place under a 

 plurality of queens. The working bees lake equal care of Iheir 

 males, in spring, (when the hive is looking out for a new genera- 

 tion), but destroy them as useless in August ! Nay, some writers 

 of credit are not afraid to tell us, that the bees know beforehand^ 

 when the young queen is about to leave lier chamber, and before 

 any opening is made, buzz about the future door and are in punctual 

 attendance at her yet undeclared vestibule. As soon as the cells are 

 emptied of their eggs, (a task executed by a delegacy of the 

 community,) they are filled with honey by others appointed to the 

 labour. The queen bee has her biographers. She possesses a cha- 

 racter, and it is not a very good one,- her morals, it seems, are by 

 no means irreproachable, and some of her aclions, as related by 

 Reaumur, exhibit her less as the Lucretia than the Messalina of 

 insects ! Thus we see, that, without any the least misgivings in 

 those who celebrate its accomplishments, Ihe bee enjoys Ihe repu- 

 tation not only of knowledge which we could not reach, but of /ore- 

 knowledge, to which neither instinct nor reason could possibly 

 contribute. Yet it is for one or other of these two Candidates that 

 your suffrage is asked, and it is easy to see for which of them the 

 prejudice of education will carry the election ; for if one should 

 write, a folio against the admission of a self-directing power in ani- 

 mals which have no brain or nervous system, we still prefer the 

 poet to the philosopher. 



" Say where full Instinct is th'uuerring guide 



What pope or council shall they need beside ? 



Reason, however able, cool at best, 



Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, 



Stays till we call, and then not often near 



Hut honest instinct is a volunteer. 



This loo, serves always, reason never long; 



One must go right, Ihe olher may go wrong!" 



POP i . 



