q 40. | 
driving them into a Corner: of the 
Hive, “by the Smoak of a’Rag, while 
the Operator (bold Man!) fhould pare 
away with his Knife, as many of the 
Combs as he thought proper. Upon 
this, the chraninablct Lady, tranfported 
shuld the Difcovery, forms the follow- 
ing benevolent Scheme, for the Bene- 
Gir -66 her poor Neighbours. « Lvery 
Inhabitant of my Hazlet, fays She, 
feall be provided with two Hives 5 every 
Hive {in France| will, one with another, 
produce two good Swarms; fo.a Man 
who is now poffeffed of two Flives, will 
have fix next Year, eighteen the follow- 
ing, fifty four the fourth, and the 
Sifth a Hundred and Sixty-two, AND 
so on. The good Lady, I think, 
might have been content, (but bre 
Charity knew no Beunde with the, 
laft. mentioned Number, and {pared 
her &c. , A 
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