6 THE HISTORMOF BEES, 
But fo many and various are the circumftances about 
the {warming and hiving of Bees, that it is impoflible to 
give direétions in them all. Common prudence will di- 
rect in many cafes; and the reft muft be learned by ob- 
fervation, practice, and experience. 
In hiving fwarms (if you are afraid of their ftings) you 
may fecure yourfelf by a thin veil over the face, or by 
wafhing it with the {weet liquid ufed in drefling the 
hive. . 
Ina very hot feafon, when the Bees are more apt to 
ftrike, I have (tho? not often) put on fuch a veil; but I 
have feldom been ftung, unlefs accidentally I happened 
to crufh one. ea 
The laft fwarm I had a fummer or two ago never fet- 
tled. at all, but crofling a wide ftreet, they fled over the. 
houfes, and entering in at the fide-piece of a back- 
building, found a paflage into the funnel of a chimney, 
and. had chofe that for their habitation. Refolving to 
diflodge them from this place, I got a large quantity of 
combuftible matter, fit for fuch a purpofe, and fet it on 
fire, which prefently brought them to light. No fooner 
did the fmoke begin to fill the chimney, but firft we heard 
a ftrange uproar and confufion, and prefently confidera- 
ble numbers came down into the room, thro’ the fire 
and fmoke, and fome perifhed therein, and the reft were 
let out at the window, but the main body efcaped the 
way they entered, fettling on the outfide wall; whence we 
got them with fome difficulty into an hive, in which 
they profpered fome years, producing feveral fwarms. 
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