“164 ‘The Hiftory of Buss. 
and the other, and great Multitudes quickfy 
-flain. aed : oe ar 
_— A few Bees perhaps at firft find’ means 
“to pats by the Guard, and encouraged by 
repeated Succefs, they return with frefh 
“Forces, conftantly encreafing the Number, 
ull the Invafion is too powerful to be ‘op- 
»poted, and the Hive is entirely ruined. ~~ 
. The eleventh of Augu/t, 1716, my _ little 
_ Daughter came running to me, (being in Com- 
__ pany,) and told me the Bees were {warming ; 
but I gueffed them to be Robbers, which’ I 
_ prefently found true upon entering the Gar- 
den; where I beheld a dreadful Battle, and 
great Numbers dead upon the Walks, having 
broke at once into’ feveral Hives. © Nor was 
there one Stock or Colony left untried, tho* in, 
all about thirty. Here I had Employment 
enough, Immediately I ftopped up two of 
them very clofe, and by other Means, in lefs 
than an Hour, I fecured all the reft, and the 
Robbers difappeared. Sag song 
The End of Fuly lat, taking a Walk to 
one of my Apiaries, I no fooner heard the 
Noife of the Bees, but I was  perfuaded 
they were employed in Theft and Robbery; 
-and prefently found they had violently af 
~ faulted feventeen Hives in another Bee-Gar- 
. den at a fimall Diftance. Great Numbers 
were broke into one of them, and carrying 
~ out Honey with little or no Oppofition, 
_ which I directly fecured. Upon that, — 
fell 


