Their Labour and Indufiry. 2° 
the laft Summer) the greateft Diligence. pof- 
fible may be infufficient to preferve them. 
Scarce one in Ten of the laft Year’s Swarms, 
which ‘came late, could ftand.: Ww 
I have not above Three left out of T'wenty- 
four. ‘Thé continued and’ exceffive Rains, 
which damaged the Corn, either. wafhed 
away the mellifluous: Juices, or preyented 
their gathering, or both, and fo DR the 
faid Loffes... Yet the Bees are in Safety, 
united with other Stocks. 3 
_* Thus conftant are they in their honeft 
Labours, from Morning ‘till Night; and 
when the Day is gone, their Work is not 
done; they labour in the Night, in building 
Combs, (if they are new Swarms) or in 
filling the Magazines with Honey ; or feal- 
ing the Cells, miniftring more nutritive 
Matter to the young Brood; killing the 
Drones, &c. - 
In a Word: Such is their natural Tem- 
per and Difpofition, that rather than be. idle 
and inactive, they will be doing Mifchief, 
viz. plundering and robbing their Neigh- 
bours. ‘To conclude: If, Ants are com- 
mended for their prudent Pains, providing 
their Meat in Summer, and gathering their 
Food in Harvett, tho’ unferviceable to Men; 
how much more worthy of Praife are thefe 
inftruétive, exemplary Infeéts, who herein 
fet us (both as Men and Chriftians) a Pat- 
tern fit for our Imitation? Go then to the 
Lint, 
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