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settlement, one of the scouts alighted in no very gentle 
mood on some part of his hide, inflicting so unpleasant a 
titillation that “ Jack,” throwing his heels out, set the hive 
rolling some distance from its stand. Out flew the in¬ 
mates, buzzing angry imprecations, and in an instant the 
indignant swarm had covered the hide of their assailant 
from “ stem to stern.” “ Jack 55 kicked, jumped, and brayed, 
and committed all kinds of curvettings, using his tail as a 
flail to clear off his smaller assailants, and flapping his ears, 
right and left, to dislodge those about his head quarters; 
but finding “ the stings and arrows” of the outrageous 
enemy rather too much for him in a stand-up fight, he 
adopted the Lancashire mode, and throwing himself upon 
the grass-plot, commenced a fearful and exterminating 
slaughter by rolling himself over and over. The outcry 
alarmed the family, and Mr. Perceval, who is advanced in 
years, and afflicted with lameness, advanced to the scene 
of action ; but seeing a fresh object, the angry insects left 
their prostrate foe and alighted on the hat of Mr. Perceval. 
The servant lad, seeing the cluster on his masters hat, 
imprudently removed it from his head, which then became 
the object of attack, and it was only by dexterously throw¬ 
ing the cloth over his head and removing him from the 
scene that Mr. Perceval was not seriously injured, as the 
bees that “Jack” had disturbed were whizzing about in 
that angry state of excitement that makes them highly 
desperate and dangerous. It is satisfactory to know that 
after all the hubbub the insects were rehived, and that 
no one received any great amount of injury, although 
“ Jack,” the originator of the disaster, is often seen to 
throw a glance of suspicion across the plot, and by sundry 
shakings of his ears and tail to endeavour to indicate 
that, like the great Duke of Waterloo, “ He never fought 
such a battle before, and he hopes never to fight such ano¬ 
ther .”—Birmingham Daily Post . 
OBITUARY. 
Died, on the 21st July, at New Brunswick, from an attack 
of apoplexy, M. Cumming, M.R.C.V.S., late of Ellon, 
Aberdeenshire. Mr. Cumming, before leaving Scotland for 
America, had devoted himself to literary pursuits, and pub¬ 
lished two valuable papers relating to the diseases of cattle 
in the c Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural 
Society/ On his arrival at New Brunswick he became con¬ 
nected with the ‘ Courier 1 newspaper, to which periodical he 
was a constant contributor. 
