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ours, the use of the clanking of these pans and pots 

 could have no effect, and the bees settling in the 

 apple tree instead of flying off, as they sometimes do 

 to a long distance, was due to some other cause. 

 Possibly the sound waves caused by this clatter 

 vibrating on the air in some way affected the nervous 

 organization of the bees. I remember some years ago 

 reading of a flight of bees settling upon a man's head 

 and neck in Regent Street. 



I will finish these rambling notes by quoting a few 

 lines on the weather, at all seasons. 



SIGNS OF FOUL WEATHER. 

 (From Dr. Jenner. Quoted by R. Chambers.} 



" Loud quack the ducks, the sea-fowl cry, 

 The distant hills are looking nigh ; 

 How restless are the snorting swine, 

 The busy flies disturb the kine ; 

 Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; 

 The cricket, too, how sharp he sings ? 

 Puss on the hearth with velvet paws 

 Sits wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws ; 

 The smoke from chimneys right ascends, 

 Then spreading back to earth it bends ; 

 The wind unsteady veers around, 

 Or settling in the south is found ; 

 Through the clear stream -thejishes rise 

 And nimbly catch the incautious flies" 



