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THE YOUTH’S CABINET.

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battle royal commences. Nor is there

ever a moment’s peace in the house,
while two queens remain alive under the
same roof; but when all the rest are
killed, the surviving queen sits quietly

down upon her throne, and'for another

season, reigns peacefully over her loving
subjects.

The working bees are divided into two
classes, namely, into nurse-bees and the
wax-workers. The nurse-bees feed and
take care of the young grubs, also put-
ting a finishing touch to the combs and
cells which the workers have commen-
ced; confining themselves, also, more
within doors, and seeming to throw all
the care and trouble of bringing in pro-
Visions to the hive upon the wax-work-
ers, as if they had quite enough to do in
looking after the baby-bees. When bees
begin to build their hive, they divide
themselves into various companies—one
brings in materials for the laborer, an-
other band places them in a proper form,
and a third company supplies the labor-
ers with food; for they are not allowed
té leave off work, and go to their din-
her. When a laboring bee is hungry, he
bends his trunk down, which is quite as
well understood as if he rang the bell
and called “ Waiter ;” the attending bee
comes, opens his honey-bag, gives the
laborer a few drops, then hastens to an-
other, and so on, until the whole are sup-
plied.

{ must not omit to tell you, that when
thé bees quit their hives, and begin to
swarm, the old women in the country
rush out with their frying-pans and
warming-pans, and commence beating
‘apon them, and kicking up such a ran-

tan-tan, that the sound is almost loud

endugh to break the drum of a deaf

 

man’s ear; but whether it causes the
bees to settle down any sooner, or not,
is a subject which I cannot undertake
to decide. When, however, the bees
have once settled down in a heap, like
a great bunch of raisins stuck together,
there is no difficulty in whisking them off,
all of alump, into an empty hive, cover-
ing them over with a cloth, and carrying
them safely home; when, in a few days
after, you will see them issuing out of
their hive, and buzzing about among the
flowers, and returning home again laden
with honey, just as if nothing had hap-
pened.—Boy’s Spring Book.

Liberty and Religion.

n English soldier, who had been
shut up in prison for robbery
and manslaughter, seeing one of
his comrades in the street, going

by, called to him through the grate of
the prison, and asked him what news
there was abroad. ‘ Why,’ answered
the other, “there is a rebellion broke
out in Scotland.” “God preserve us!”
cried the fettered soldier ; “if these ras-
cals get the upper hand, then farewell to
the liberty of old England.” “ Aye,”
replied the other, with an oath, “and
what will become of the Protestant re-

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“Tr is with narrow-souled people as it
is with narrow-necked bottles—the less
they have in them, the more noise they
make in bringing it out.”