Excerpt from An Essay on the Management of Bees A' gentleman in that neighbourhocd, willing to be an eye-witnefs of what this man could do, fent for him to his houfe, and car ried him into.his garden, where the man took up feveral hives, and looked 1nto them, thereby to judge which could beft fpare part of their honey This he did without feeming at all to apprehend the bees, and without being 1n (the leaft hurt by them. He then defired that a cloth might be fpread on a table in the dwell ing houfe, and upon that he laid the hive he had pitched upon, bottom upmof't; after this he defired all the company to: quit the room, faying, that he would inform them'when they might return with fafety. He foon called in the owner of the bees, who told him, that his. Wife and children withed to be admitted, if it could be done. Without danger to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.