

— Lheir Language. 147 
| inoft loving faithful Friends, taking a final 
Leave of each other, with the tendereft, moft 
affectionate Embraces, and with Floods of 
Tears. But to return. ‘ 
_ With the fecond Swarm two of the Roy- 
al Princefles go forth very often, and fome- 
| times three, in hopes to gain a Kingdom. 
That Princefs, who is fo happy as to get 
the Throne firft, is proclaimed Queen, and 
crowned ; the reft are all flain, as I have 
found them the next Morning, — 
‘Tt is very feldom FE keep thefe fecond 
Swarms, well knewing they feldom anfwer 
any good Purpofe, except two or three are 
joined together. Befides, the old Stocks 
reatly fuffer thereby; for which Reafon 
i frequently return them, knocking them 
out before the old Stock, I would advife 
others to do the fame, which would not a 
little help the old Stocks, and in the End 
turn to the Advantage of the Owners. And 
taking their Queen from them they would 
| not be fo apt to rife again. 
_ To put two Cafts together has little Dif- 
| ficulty in it, efpecially if they come the fame 
| Day ; it is only at Night fixing the Mouth 
of one of the Hives upwards, and placing the 
other dire€tly upon it, when one {mart Stroke 
with your Hand will beat the whole Bodydown 
into thewnder Hive, which you mutt prefently 
fet again upon a Cloth, that they may fettle 
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