ue! ae eae 
‘The Operation itfelf,-'is'no more than 
this: Open the Mouth of the Box you 
are going to feizes then, with a thin 
Knife, cut through’ the Refin, with 
_ which the Bees have joined the Boxes 
to each other, till’you find you have 
feparated them : After which thruft 
your Sheet of ‘Tin gently between the 
Boxes, and your Work is done; and 
you will ‘with Pleafure and Surprize 
obferve the Effeats of it: For the Com- - 
munication being’ ftopped, the Bees. 
in the ‘fulleft Box’ (where it 1s moft 
likely their Queen’ is) will Be a fittle ~ 
difturbed at the Operation, but thofe 
Gn’ the ‘other Box (where we fuppole 
the Queen 1s not) will appear diftract- 
ed. They foon become fenfible that 
their Sovereign is not amongft them : 
"They then run to and fro in’ the ut- 
moft Hurry and 'Confufion, “and? fend _ 
forth ‘a ‘mhournful'Cry, eafily to be 
diftinguifhed from ‘their: -other-Notes. 
et ied a Im- 
