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Stock; and I fhall hardly be fuch 
a Fool, as to leflen it any more, and 
grieve my own Heart, by durning 
the poor Things, fince I can get ten 
times more Honey by preferving 
them. So this Summer, if I have 
any Luck, I fhall have fix Swarms 
at leaft ; then the Number of my 
Colonies, as the Parfon calls ’em, — 
will be twelve: The next Summer 
I {hall have twenty four; and fo, 
by doubling my Stock every Year, 
I fhall foon have more than my 
* little Garden will hold; but I can 
enlarge Hes’ 
‘The romantick Lady, in the enter- 
taining Aliffory of Bees, tranflated from ~ 
the French in 1744, has quite out- 
done. my Countryman in 4er Compu- 
tations. Her Philofopher had told - 
her of a wild and impracticable Me- 
thod, of taking Part of the Honey, 
and faving the Lives of the Bees, by 
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