156 THE BLESSED BEES. 



of industry and independence learned in attending 

 to their needs ; looking at the books, and travels, 

 and means of culture which they secured for my 

 mother, my sister, my brother, and myself ; looking 

 at the works, of which my father had only distant 

 dreams, which I have wrought through their help, 

 they have surely been " The BLESSED BEES." 



