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had at various times been left in his body, with 

 the aid of a little seccotine he arranged these 

 in rows on the back of his wrist, with what are 

 known as their " business ends " uppermost. 

 The very next bee that alighted on his hand had 

 scarcely time to unsheathe its weapon before 

 it was badly stung in the lower part of the back. 

 No less surprised than annoyed by this un- 

 expected attack, the sagacious little animal 

 hurried home to the hive, where the news spread 

 like wildfire, and thereafter the delighted bee- 

 keeper was left severely alone. 



The horse-master who adopts some such 

 method as this will obtain similar results. 

 Before approaching the heels of a notorious 

 kicker, he should take steps to protect himself 

 with a steel shield made of the metal with which 

 first-class battleships are armour-plated. Then, 

 when the animal lashes out at him, it will hurt 

 itself far more than it hurts him, and by the 

 time it has dislocated its fetlocks two or three 

 times in the attempt to pierce his guard, will 

 renounce the pernicious habit of kicking, and 

 be reduced to a condition of agreeable docility. 



A savage horse that rushes at its owner and 

 bites him is more difficult to deal with. One of 

 Napoleon's most famous generals, as he tells us 

 in his " Memoirs," who owned a mordacious 

 charger of this type, succeeded in bringing the 



