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Flowers that efcape, that I have feen 
between feventy and eighty Hives in 
one Farmer’s Yard: And this, juft after 
the Inguifition was over, and he had 
been murdering ail he intended to 
murder that Seafon. And thefe Hives, 
I know too well, were much_ better 
ftored with Honey, than any are found 
‘to be in thefe Parts. 
Now fhould this honeft Farmer, hy 
Way of rewarding me for thefe my 
Labours, for his Benefit, make. mea _ 
Prefent of thirty or forty of his Co- 
lonies, and fhould be fo kind as to 
bring and place them in my Garden, 
what think you, would be the Confe- 
quence of his Generofity ? . Nothing 
lefs than a dreadful Famine. The 
New-comers would be ftarved them- 
felves, and would ftarve all my poor 
Neighbours Bees, for three or four Miles 
round me. They would be fo far 
from ~ upany Thing fora Winter’s — 
Day, 
