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the {warm ftay in the hive near a fortnight before they 
rofe again; and perhaps waited foraleader. Sometimes 
they rofe no more. ae 
The poor difabled, unhappy Princefs ] have picked 
up in the grafs, but never without fome attendants, 
‘whom nothing but violence could feparate from her. 
Their Language. 
_AS to the time of fecond fwarms, we (generally) fix 
it to a day or two, and know when to expect them, by 
means of thofe diftinét, peculiar, and mufical notes, 
which are always heard two or three days before they 
tife. . 
Bees certainly have a language among themfelves 
which they perfectly underftand, tho’ we do not, or at 
beft very imperfectly. Eight or nine days after the 
prime fwarm is departed, one of the young Princefles, _ 
addrefling herfelf in a very humble and fubmiflive man- 
ner to the Queen-mother, petitions for leave to with- 
draw, and ereét anew empire, with a felect body of 
the populace. 
The Regent for a time feems filent, and for a day or 
night there is no anfwer, nor any grant given; however, 
the young Princefs (bent on a crown and kingdom) con- 
tinues her fuit, and at laft fucceeds.. The fecond night 
you may hear the Queen, with a very audible voice (be- 
ing an eighth) giving her royal grant, and proclaiming 
it as by found of a trumpet thro’ the whole kingdom. 
Her voice is a grant, her filencea denial. And the day 
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