os THE HISTORY OF BEES. 
the lofs of their lives. They fell upon him with the 
greateft fury imaginable, but I durft not offer him any 
affiftance or relief. ' 
_ They charged him in flank, front, and rear; clung 
to him, like ivy to the tree ;. got under his covering, in- 
to his hair; arid uhder his cloaths, and Rung him from 
head to foot, 
It was a confiderable time before thé battle was end- 
éd, and he had entirely difengaged himfelf; at which 
time I fliffered him to come to me, when hundreds of 
ftings {tuck in his hat, mittens, &c. befides a confiderable 
_ number left in his body, the poifon of which prefently 
inflamed his blood, and threw him into a violént fever, 
which threatened his life. The fever increafing, his 
life hung in fufpenfe for at leaft two entire days : toward 
the clofe of the third day it begah to abate, and being a 
man of a {trong and vigorous conftitution, he recovered, 
and in a few days more was perfectly well, to the great 
joy of his family, and other friends, 
Some time after the batile, the fcattéred troops being 
-ye-affembled, rofe and fettled upon a little branch of the 
tree, which I gently cut down, putting them into a hive 
prepared for them, when not fo much as one fingle Bee 
fhewed the lcaft refentment. 
1 was of opinion, that near one third was deftroyed in 
the engagement; yet they gathered that Sutnmer fuffi- 
cient to maintain them the follpwing Winter, aid for 
fome years did well, though a very dear purehate. 
The more you refif, the mote you enrase them, and 
when once provoked and engaged, they fCom to capitu- 
late, 

