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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LESSONS DERIVED FROM THE ANIMAL WORLD. THE BEE, AS AN EXAMPLE OF ECONOMY. Paet II.-The Humble Bee. Pakt III.-Solitary Bees. PUBLISHED UNDER Till: DIRECTION OF XHK COUMITTEE OP GENERAL LITERATURE ASP ELCCATIOS APPOIKTED By THE SOCIETY FOB. PROHOTIkU CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE. LONDON: PriDted for th-, SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE; SOLD AT THE DEPOS1TOHY, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INK FIELDS; AND 4, ROYAL EXCHANGE. 184G. fttnter. DERIVED FROM THE ANIMAL WORLD. " Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee."-Job xii. 7, THE BEE, AS AN EXAMPLE OF ECONOMY. PART II.-THE HUMBLE BEE. PART III.-SOLITARY BEES. PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE COMMITTEE OF GENERAL LITERATURE AND EDUCATION, APPOINTED BY THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDOE. LONDON: SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE; EOI-D AT THE DEPOSITORY, GREAT ttUEEN STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, AND 4, ROYAL EXCHANGE. LONDON: B. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILl. THE BEE. Part II.-HUMBLE BEES. Humble Bees form a very interesting portion of our social insects, although, compared with hive bees, they have been called rude and untutored villagers. As an example of economy they are inferior in interest to the hive bee, but their history is extremely curious, and well calculated to furnish us with a lesson. " Their comparatively large size, and gay colours, render them conspicuous objects in our fields and gardens ; the untiring diligence with which they seek their food among the blossoms, ' so busy and so pleased, ' can hardly be observed without pleasure ; while their incessant hum, which often assails our ears in heather uplands, where nearly all other i
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