HVBBR THE BLIBD NATURALIST. 



THE BEE. 



Herb we have a Home Pet of the veiy highest order j for not 

 only does its study bring teeming profit in the shape of so many 

 pages revealed of Nature's wonderful economy, and, stOl more 

 profitable, of the infinite wisdom and goodness of the Creator, 

 but the bee-keeper has ever at hand a pattern of industry and 

 cheerfiilness, of content, of proper submission to authority, which 

 is only another term for loyalty, — of thrift, and of valour. As 

 truly says a writer of a bygone age, " In their labour at home 

 and abroad, they may be a pattern with men ; for unless they 

 are hindered by weather, weakness, or want of stuff to work 

 upon, their labour never ceaseth, and, for their order, it is suck 

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