The first brown honey-bees brought to California are said to have arrived in San Francisco in March, 1853.

From swarms that escaped their owners in the lowlands, the honey-bee is now generally distributed throughout the whole length of the Sierra, up to an elevation of 8000 feet above sea-level.

The tame honey-bees seemed languid and wing-weary, as if they had come all the way up from the flowerless valley.

The ground, frozen solid all the year, thaws out for a foot or two on the surface during the warm months, and here and there were scattered wild flowers; spring beauties, purple primroses, yellow anemone, and saxifrages bloomed in beauty, and wild honey-bees, gay bumblebees, and fat mosquitoes buzzed and hummed everywhere.

She was always as contented as a honey-bee on a clover-head, for the same reason, I guess.

Let go the oar, and quickly drive into the earth an anchor from the prow, to save us from the rocky reef, for the glory of my song of praise flitteth like a honey-bee from tale to tale.

Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions, Setting endeavor in continual motion; To which is fixéd, as an aim or butt, Obedience: for so work the honey-bees, Creatures that by a rule in nature teach The act of order to a peopled kingdom.

As for me, I sat here and there, on hillocks and stones, among ferns, and white cornels, and honey-bees, and bobolinks.

Some one in a company quoting the passage from "Henry V.," "So work the honey-bees," and each "picking out his pet plum" from that perfect piece of natural history, Wordsworth objected to the line, "The singing masons building roofs of gold," because, he said, of the unpleasant repetition of the "ing" in it!

We need but instance his assumption, without a fact on which to build it, that the marvellous skill of the honey-bee in constructing its cells is thus obtained, and the slave-making habits of the Formica Polyerges thus formed.

Thee the chest prisoned, for thee the honey-bees Toiled, as thou slavedst out the mellowing year:

They consist, first, of the Mansion, a spacious two-storied building, in the style of the Yankee-Grecian villas which infest New England towns, with piazzas supported by Doric columns, and a cupola which is surmounted by a beehive, the peculiar emblem of the Mormons, although there is not a single honey-bee in the Territory.

In the forests of the Amazonian basin they did better because they often shot birds and plundered the hives of the wild honey-bees.

The comb differed much from that of our honey-bees.

A pair of king-birds built in his father's orchard, and it was desirable to get rid of them, because they destroy honey-bees.

The miller calls them 'Bee Martins,' and says that they eat up all the honey-bees.

Instead of living on honey-bees, as many people think, he eats very few of these, but kills instead thousands of the bad robber-fly, which is the honey-bee's worst enemy.

But to see my Curt go this wayand my only son crazy to join himOh, it is ha'd, Honey-bee, ve'y, ve'y ha'd.

"I won't express any sentiments, Honey-bee.

Strange look'd it there!the willow stream'd Where silv'ry waters near it gleam'd; The lime-bough lured the honey-bee To murmur by the Desert's tree, And showers of snowy roses made A lustre in its fan-like shade.

[Footnote 18: The honey-bee is not known in the perfectly wild countries of North America.

In a moment or two he broke off suddenly, and a honey-bee shot out of an anemone-bell like a shell from a mortar.

The honey-bees of Hybla touched his lips In that old New-World garden, unawares.

Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells.

" The following is worthy of Pliny: "In the month of January, 1797, on a pleasant day for the season, I observed my honey-bees to be out of their hives, and they seemed to be very busy, excepting one hive.