Device, Amble before and find the parson out; We will bee friends and thou shalt be her father.

Bees, he also observes, are much the best setters of cucumbers.

Instantly she was surrounded by every young fellow in the room, imploring her to dance with him, and at once Bee became the belle of the ball.

That is to say, there is a political instinct in him which causes him to organize political societies and make laws; he is a state builder in the same way that the beaver is a dam builder, or the oriole is a nest builder, or the bee is a comb builder.

The spotted butterfly, that flits through the air, on fairy wing, or rests its downy pinions on the bosom of the fragrant rose; the bird that carols on the spray, or warbles sweetly through the air; the mountain bee, that comes humming round the summer flower, sipping its store of sweets, and even the drowsy hum of the summer-fly, as it floats in mazy circles, are all connecting links in nature's chain.

" The New Orleans Bee, in which the advertisement of this Vandal appears, is the 'Official Gazette of the Stateof the General Counciland of the first and third Municipalities of New Orleans.'

We will take for granted, that the bee is the wisest animal of all, and that it is a judicious thing to consider his manners and customs, with reference to their adoption by his inferiors, who keep him in hives.

"The bee is a fool in the summer; He knows it when summer is flown: He might, for all good of his honey, As well have let flowers alone.

He got up, and climbing from his mother's knee to her shoulder, and standing on it, he looked into the crevice into which the bees were streaming, and saw their nest full of clusters of small round objects that looked like white berries.

But above all, the bee is the argument.

The "Athenian Bee" was Plato the philosopher (B.C. 428-347).

THE QUEEN BEE It is a singular fact, also, that the queen is made, not born.

Bee says it speaks volumes for the tempers of the Jimmies, but then Bee is my sister, or to put it more properly, I am Bee's sister, and what woman is a heroine to her own sister?

According to Mr. J.T. Gordon, President of the Los Angeles County Bee-keepers' Association, the first bees introduced into the county were a single hive, which cost $150 in San Francisco, and arrived in September, 1854.

a good many years since "spelling-bees" were a favourite amusement in London drawing-rooms.

I was in ecstasies, for Bee's wholesome admiration of her stunning officer and his undeniably unusual horsemanship prevented her from being rendered in any way uncomfortable by his action, for truth to tell, Bee was a target for the roving glances of Baron von Furzmann, but he was so hopelessly the wrong man that she not only was unaware of it then but vehemently disclaimed it when I enlightened her later.

There is honey in the country and it's plentiful as well as good, because bees are not easy property to raid and make away with; but the milk is from goats, and as for overflowing, I would hate to have to punish the dugs of a score of the brutes to get a jugful for dinner.

Poisonous ants, biting flies, ticks, wasps, bees were a perpetual torment.

[Footnote 205: The ancients, even Aristotle, did not know that the queen bee is the common mother of the hive.

The stur-dy bees went hum-ming by, Draw-ing sweet ho-ney from the clo-ver, Nor stir-red the yel-low But-ter-fly, For he was but an i-dle ro-ver.

" The spinning-bees are great fêtes among the industrious maidens of Prince Edward Island.

"This day, dear Bee, is thy nativity; Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it ye."Swift.

That, I dare say, was the reason why I took the sound at first for the boom of a bumble-bee; some strange Floridian bee, with a deeper and more melodious bass than any Northern insect is master of.

310 Sith Ignorance our kingdome did confound, Bee now become most wretched wightes on ground.

The bees were soldiers.