22 THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
of fettlement. A twig or {mall branch you may gently 
cut off with a fharp knife or faw ; 3 or fhake them into 
the hive, fetting it down upon acloth, ready fpread upon 
the ground, with a little flick placed acrofs to bear up 
one fide, to give them the liberty of paffing in and out. 
If you fhake them into an empty hive, and many (as 
is ufual) seturn to the place, repeat the action as often 
.as there is occafion; knocking them out of the empty 
hive upon the cloth, you will with pleafure fee them 
_croud to. their companions in the other hive, like fheep 
into a fold. 
But if they fettle, as fometimes, upon the ae or 
large arm of a tree, Wc, the beft way is with a bruth, or 
alittle handful of fmall branches, to fweep them into 
the hive. 
Being thus fixed in a new habitation, in the evening 
when they are all within and quiet, carry them fo the 
place you have appointed for them; leaving them no 
paflage into or out of the hive, but only at the door, 
which may be gradually reduced to a narrower com- 
pafs. 
When they are fwarming, and dancing a Levalto in 
the neighbouring cloud, I never entertain them with a- 
ny fort of mufick, ‘as do the country people, which 
drowns the delightful and more melodious founds of the 
Bees. Nor is it of any fervice. ' 
 Thave often known the Queen fall upon the ground, 
not being able to fly, thro’ fome defect in her wings ; 
then the {warm returns home again; and the next time 
they rife, they have another Sovereign, I have known 
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