chapman’s handy-book. 
belter, but llieir temper would be sweeter. I find invaria¬ 
bly that people who like lioney are persons of genial 
and affectionate temper. If Mr Cobden and Mia 
Roebuck had only taken honey at breakfast or a very 
choice fragment of virgin honey at dessert, they would 
never have given utterance to those vinegar and acetic, 
acid speeches which did them no credit. I wish somebody 
would send Mr. Spurgeon a super of good honey. Three 
months' diet on this celestial food would induce ■ o 
give up those shockingly bitter and unchristian tirades e 
has been lately making against the clergy of the C iurc 
of England. The producers of honey never draw their 
stinp'S^unless in defence of their homesteads, and the ca ,ers 
and admirers of lioney rarely indulge in aciimonious an 
pua°’e. I believe a great deal of bad feeling is no mora 
or mental, but physical, in its origin. If you have m a 
congregation, or in a school, or in a convocation some one 
who sets everybody by the ears, treat him to a little honey 
at breakfast for six months, and the “ thorn will blossom 
as the rose.” , c ,, , . 
Therefore, as you take the honey combs out of the hive, 
separate those which are quite full from such as are only 
partly so; those which are pure white combs from such as 
are dark in colour, or have some of. the cells filled with 
bee bread. This separation may easily be made by having 
several dishes or milk pans by you, in which to lay the 
different sorts of comb as they come to hand. By making 
this division at once, will save a good deal of honey ; for if 
all the combs are heaped together in one vessel, the dark 
combs, which are the hardest, will crush and otherwise 
in]ure the pure white combs ] m them the wax is "V cry 
thin and fragile, hardly able to bear the weight of the 
lioney which they contain, and sinking immediately under 
any external pressure. Often you will find two sorts of 
honey comb, the pure and the impure, in the same cake. 
Separate them at once with a sharp knife. 
If you take a top box or a glass entirely full of pure 
honey, you need not be in any hurry to cut it out; it will 
keep better where it is, if only you place it in security, 
where no bee on a foraging excursion can possibly find 
it out. 
