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our bees — an expression commonly heard from the 

 lips of the enthusiastic bee-keeper, man or woman. 



It is hard, perhaps, to say exactly what it is 

 that evokes this passionate devotion to the craft, 

 more especially as there is no response to it, as is 

 so often seen in the case of such animals as horses 

 and dogs or birds. The most that can be said 

 in that respect is that bees are less likely to 

 sting when handled gently. 



Perhaps we may not be very wide of the mark if 

 we think the secret may be found in the words 

 of Kirby, that most patient and persevering, 

 as well as shrewd and intellectual entomologist, 

 to whom the present generation of students owes 

 so much. 



" Insects are a book in which whoever reads 

 under proper impressions cannot avoid looking 

 from the cause to the effect, and acknowledging 

 his eternal power and godhead thus wonderfully 

 displayed and irrefragably demonstrated : and 

 whoever beholds these works with the eyes of the 

 body, must be blind indeed if he cannot, and 

 perverse indeed if he will not, with the eye of the 

 soul behold in all his glory the Almighty Work- 

 man." — Introduction to Entomology. 



FINIS 



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