The Swarm 
at once detect the imposture ; the intru- 
der will be seized, and immediately en- 
closed in the terrible, tumultuous prison, 
whose obstinate walls will be relieved, as 
it were, till she dies; for in this particular 
instance it hardly ever occurs that the 
stranger emerges alive. 
And here it is curious to note to 
what diplomacy and elaborate stratagem 
man is compelled to resort in order to 
delude these little sagacious insects, and 
bend them to his will. In their un- 
swerving loyalty, they will accept the 
most unexpected events with touching 
courage, regarding them probably as some 
new and inevitable fatal caprice of nature. 
And, indeed, all this diplomacy notwith- 
standing, in the desperate confusion that 
may follow one of these hazardous ex- 
pedients, it is om the admirable good 
sense of the bee that man always, and 
almost empirically, relies; on the inex- 
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