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ments, which she proceeds to scatter about 

 and then eat up ; while the drone bee, if he 

 succeeds in captivating a queen on the wing, 

 actually dies in the act ; and if he fails to 

 capture a queen, and wishes to remain a 

 bachelor bee, living on honey which he does 

 not help to gather, he is stung to death by 

 the suffragettes — I mean the working bees, 

 which are sexually undeveloped females. 

 The female tick, too, is of interest to us here 

 in Ireland, because an epidemic of relapsing 

 fever, which she, as well as the common 

 louse, is the carrier of, was described as long 

 ago as the time of Hippocrates, that great 

 physician having well described the symptoms 

 and physical signs of the disease. From his 

 time the disease dropped out of medical 

 literature, until it was re-described at the close 

 of the eighteenth century as a peculiar 

 *' Dublin fever." It was very common in 

 Ireland during the famine years, and up to 

 the present day ticks give a fever to hounds 

 in this country which is pretty sure to be 

 caused by a spirochaete, such as you will 



