subject of swarming, and how to regulate it, or prevent it, will 

 be fully treated of in the forthcoming second edition of " My Bee 

 Book." 



"This honey thief, this Bee-i-oide. "— Pa^e 14.— This latter word is 

 the invention of the learned Doctor Gumming, the Times' Bee- 

 master. See a most stunning article on his Bee-Book in the Satur- 

 day Eeview, the second or third number for December, 1864. The 

 proverbial thickness of a Scotchman's skin can alone have pre- 

 served him from dying from the effects of this stinging article. 

 "Docte Commenas utriusque linquoe" say I. 



" CuiL A Ceoous ajstd an AtTEicuLA." — Page 17.— The last word was 

 indeed a difficult one to hitch into rhyme. It has, however, been, 

 I think, successfully overcome. I might have added another line, 

 and made » triplet, 



"Flowers which her Richard loved particular," 

 but I had compassion on the ears of my readers. 



" The PLACE I CANNOT MGEE DEFINE, 



""Within the limits oe a line."— Pa^e 19. 



I well remember, when an Eton boy, walking in the playing fields 

 with a late revered and beloved prelate, then a Fellow of Eton, 

 whose memory is dear to every Etonian who knew him, as that of a 

 kind friend and finished scholar, — such as alas ! seem extinct in these 

 degenerate days. He was Hving in a picturesque old house, "The 

 Warf," now destroyed, that his two sons, then at Eton, might 

 still have the benefit of home associations. His daughters, and their 

 French governess, accompanied us in this well-remembered stroll. 

 Mademoiselle was very curious as to how the Eton boys were pun- 

 ished. She wanted all the details, and asked if they were whipped 

 on their backs. The question made us all look foolish, but Dr. L. 

 with a twinkle of his eyes, which marked his appreciation of the 

 situation, answered, '' A little lower down. Mademoiselle, a little 

 lower down." 



"Fetched his Bee Deess, his Hive, his Laddeb." — Page 23. — A veri- 

 table Guy Mr. Dull looks in his defensive armour! A simpler and 

 equally efficient dress may be made of a black net bag, large 

 enough to be drawn over a straw or felt hat, with a brim suffi- 

 ciently wide to keep the net away from the prominent organ, the 



