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she remembers your attention, and learns to place her 

 trust in you. This is a prominent feature of every being 

 that depends on man for protection. It is an attribute 

 of Him who created all. 



The mandate went forth at the creation of the world, 

 "that as man looketh to me, and I extend an outstretched 

 arm over him ; so shall every living thing be subjected 

 unto man, knowing that he provideth for them in the 

 day of their necessity." Taking this view of the case, 

 it is not unreasonable to suppose, that if one seldom goes 

 to his apiary, and pays little or no regard to the wants 

 of his bees, they will, in swarming, have no idea of be- 

 ing provided with a tenement ; and consequently will, 

 perhaps, take to the forest much sooner than under- 

 other circumstances. I have been led to this conclusion, 

 from hearing of many swarms departing to the woods, 

 in cases where I knew that no attention was paid to the 

 wants of the bees generally ; and from the fact, that 

 during the many years that I have kept this insect, I 

 never had an instance of a swarm departing, except one 

 .that clustered on the sunny side of a tree, where the 

 thermometer was about 140° in the sun, hot enough to 

 roast them; and I should not have lost this one, but I 

 was not present until half an hour after clustering, and 

 they took flight just as I arrived. I say that I have had 

 but one instance, I have had two ; the other was a case 

 where the person hiving them, used salt too freely in 

 dressing the hive, as I shall narrate hereafter, 



