purposes, but hardly enough to enable me to read a Bee- 

 Book either serious or comical. 



BIDENTEM DICERE VEETJM QUID VETAT ? 



There is much truth lying hid under these comical 

 stories ; still more in the illustrations ; and the notes which 

 I have appended may be found iiseful even by serious Bee- 

 Masters. 



I promise my readers that they shall have the second 

 ■edition of "My Bee Book" as perfect as I can make it, 

 and with as little delay as possible. 



I trust it may be much nearer perfection than the first 

 edition, published under great difficulties, could be, and I 

 hope it may have as many purchasers as this its forerunner. 



W. C. 0. 



^Frodsluim, Cheshire, 



September, 1872. 



