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from their very birth went the wrong way ; all in- 
clining to the cété gauche—revolutionists from the 
ege. 
The history of insects affords numerous instances 
of their aptitude to receive instruction or guidance 
from, or to enter into familiarity with man. Some 
indeed appear to have more, some less capacity for 
communion with man. But probably the remark 
applied of old to the education of mankind may be 
extended with equal correctness to the inferior races 
of animals : 
Nemo adeo ferus est qui non mitescere possit, 
Si modo culturze patientem commodet aurem. 
Almost any might be tamed, could their attention 
be duly fixed. Bees become familiar with those 
who feed them!. Men, who enclose their queen in 
the hand, suffer the whole swarm from the hive to 
assemble on the bare arm, and thus convey them 
from one place to another without a sting. A gen- 
tleman in the county of Somerset has at this time a 
tame hornet, which lives usually under a glass in 
his parlour, but is let out to’ be fed, and flies to him 
as soon as the glass is lifted. It has been suffered 
to take a range in the garden, and has returned, 
through the open window, to its habitation. I have 
seen fleas harnessed to tiny cars, drawing them over 
a plain, not like that of Salisbury, but of card paste- 
board, with the perseverance of dray-horses. One 
was made to draw a minute bucket from a minia- 
' For an account of Wildman and his bees, see Bingley, vol. iii. 
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