278 SUMMER. 



ranged, this industrious insect would probably have 

 long since been extinct. 



TIME OF GREATEST IKKITABILITT. 



The season of their greatest caution, in this section, 

 is August, during the flowers of buckwheat. It is 

 then their stores are greatest. As soon as a stock is 

 pretty well supplied with this world's goods, like 

 some bipeds, they become very haughty, proud, aris- 

 tocratic, and insolent. A great many things are con- 

 strued into insults, that in their days of adversity 

 would pass unnoticed ; but now it is becoming and 

 proper for their honor to show a "just resentment." 

 It behooves us, therefore, to ascertain what are con- 

 sidered insults. 



PROPER CONDUCT. 



First, all quick motions, such as running, striking, 

 &c., about them, are noticed. If our movements among 

 theni are slow, cautious, humble, and respectful,, we 

 are often let to pass unmolested, having manifested a 

 becoming deportment. Yet the exhalations- from 

 some persons appear very offensive, as they attack 

 them much sooner than others ; though I apprehend 

 there is not so great a difference as many suppose. 

 "Whenever an attack is made, and a sting follows, the 

 ■wnom thus imparted to the air, if by only one. is 

 perceived by others at some distance, which will im- 

 mediately approach the scene, and more stings are 

 likely to follow than if the firet had not been. 



