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Mr. Bonner, it feems, has been a bee- 

 ftianager from his youth ; and is now a 

 profeffor of the art, and proffers his fer- 

 vice to the gentry of his country, who may 

 be defirous of his affiftance. He appears to 

 be a fuccefsful pupil of the elder Wildman* 

 and like him enumerates feveral manoeuvres 

 that he can perform, &c. but he does not, like 

 Wildman, divulge the fecret of how, which 

 he refer ves for his own ufe. However, we 

 may fhrewdly guefs, that it is by means 

 of the bee-drefs, by driving, and by the ma- 

 nagement of the queen-bee ; by which, to 

 my thinking, any intelligent perfon, con- 

 verfant in practice, may eafily do the like, 

 if any one would compenfate him for 

 his time and trouble of amufing them, 

 which is the only ufe thefe feats feem adapt- 

 ed for. 



In a few words — Notwithstanding Mr. 

 B. confidently affures his readers, that his 

 plan is " no chimera, or Will the wifp" 

 many of them, perhaps, may require more 

 folid proofs on which to eftabliiri fuch an 

 idea. The more wonderful any thing of- 

 fered for pur belief is, the ftronger mould be 



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