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the girl to be steady, bidding her be silent and fear nothing, and 

 remaining myself close by her. I then made her stretch out her 

 right hand, which held the queen, and covered her head and 

 shoulders with a very thin handkerchief. The swarm soon fixed 

 on her hand, and hung from it, as from the branch of a tree. 

 The little girl was delighted above measure at the novel sight, 

 and so entirely free from all fear, that she bade me uncover her face. 

 The spectators were charmed with the interesting spectacle. At 

 length I brought a hive, and, shaking the swarm from her hand, 

 it was lodged in safety, and without inflicting a single wound." 



A practical acquaintance with the principles set forth in 

 this Treatise, will render it unnecessary, under any cir- 

 cumstances, to provoke to fury a colony of bees. When 

 thoroughly aroused, by the overturning, or violent jar- 



AN UNFORTUNATE BEE-ING. 



