uz THE HISTORY OF BEES, 
of fettlement. A twig or {mall branch you may gently 
cut off with a fharp knife or faw; or fhake them into 
the hive, fetting it down upon a cloth, ready fpread upon 
the ground, with a little ftick placed acrofs to bear up 
one fide, to give them the liberty of paffing in and out. 
- If you fhake them into an empty hive, and many (as 
js ufual) return to the place, repeat the action as often 
as there is occafion; knocking them out of the empty 
hive upon the cloth, you will with pleafure fee them 
croud to their companions in the other hive, like fheep 
into a fold. 
- But if they fettle, as fometimes, upon the body or 
large arm of a tree, Xe, the beft way is with a brufh, or 
a little handful of {mall branches, to {weep them inta 
the hive. 
Being thus fixed in a new habitation, in the evening 
when they are all within and quiet, carry them to the 
place you have appointed for them; leaving them no 
paflaze into or out of the hive, but only at the door, 
which may be gradually reduced to a narrower com- 
pafs. | 
When they are fwarming, and dancing a Levalio in 
the neighbouring cloud, I never entertain them with a- 
ny fort of mufick, as do the country people, which 
drowns the delightful and more melodious founds of the 
Bees. Nor is it of any fervice. 
I have often known the Queen fall upon the ground, 
not being able to fly, thro’ fome defect in her wings; 
then the {warm returns home again; and the next time 
they rife, they have another Sovereign. I have known 
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