90 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
And in their drefs and perfonal appearance they aré 
heat to a proverb. I write not this to countenance pride 
in any, but rather to recommend and encourage decent, 
modeft apparel in all. 
When the tenants of the place, or rather the natives 
and rightful poffeflors, are difinherited, either deftroyed 
without mercy, or incorporated into another family, and 
you invert the hive, to view the noble fabric, and rich 
furniture, what an entertaining profpect is there before 
you! nothing diforderly or indecent to be feen; nothing 
but the greateft regularity, purity, curiofity, elegance 
and beauty through the whole, moft delightful to be- 
hold! 
Sympathy, and mutual Affiftance. 
WE may moreover obferve their fympathy and mutu- 
al affiftance. They moft readily and chearfully em- 
brace every opportunity of helping, and being ferviceable 
to their fellow-fubjects; as in invafions from enemies, 
in killing the drones, burying their dead, and carrying 
away all that is prejudicial and provoking. When the 
labour or burthen is too much for a fingle Bee, how oft 
may you behold a fecond and athird joining their forces, 
one at one end, another at the other end, dragging the 
difagreeable object out of their dominions. 
Their 
