When a swarm leaves for the woods tliev
are off before you fairlv know it. Thev
drift away fro.,, the hive in a wide-spread
and apparently aimless concourse, then sud-
dcnly gather up their skirts draw together
tht.ir fiww, away th.v 20. a humming.
flying vortex of bees," the queen apparently
in the centre and the mass revolving about
her as a pivot, over orchards and meailows.
atruss c1""'1 aud swamps, or w.kkU an.l
twentVShUlitlgS !"""' ", S Nraigui "e api"'-u
- . j tree, slow at hrst. so that vou can keep up
a quarter better, . . ,. , , nr,.tiv ;ti, . np.Hl th:.t
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would tire a fox-hound. In this tlk'ht the
individual bees do not move in right lira.,
strai,,lt forward ,iUe a fll.k of binK ,,ut
..d aua round like chaff in a whirlwind;
unitedly they form a whirling, revolving,
nebulous mass fifteen or twenty feet across,
bat g--s as straight as a projectile to its
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t'ree w Uh t
up or low down. A swan,, of mine ran
away from the new patent hive 1 gave them,
and took up their quarters in the Imllow
' tnmk of an old apple-tree across an adji lin
ing held. 1 lie entrance was a mouse-hole
I near the ctoiiiiiI. Another swann in the
neighl.rliool deserted tlieir k.vp r and
went into the conii-e of an out-house thai
stood amid evergreens in the reur of a large
niaiisioii. But there is no accounting f
the taste of lu es, as :i!i!Snn fuuml lien he
dis.nvere.1 the swarm in the carcass or
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in.n si.un.
"Nut In My Line, Moeiatily.
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