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the girl to be steady, bidding her be silent and fear nothing, and 
remaining myself close by her. I then made her stretch out her 
right hand, which held the queen, and covered her head and 
shoulders with a very thin handkerchief. The swarm soon fixed 
on her hand, and hung from it, as from the branch of a tree. 
The little girl was delighted above measure at the novel sight, 
and so entirely free from all fear, that she bade me uncover her face. 
The spectators were charmed with the interesting spectacle. At 
length I brought a hive, and, shaking the swarm from her hand, 
it was lodged in safety, and without indicting a single wound.” 
A practical acquaintance with the principles set forth in 
this Treatise, will render it unnecessary, under any cir¬ 
cumstances , to provoke to fury a colony of bees. When 
thoroughly aroused, by the overturning, or violent jar- 
An Unfortunate Beb-lng. 
