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"I began to search among them for the queen, now got in a great body upon her breast, about her neck, and up to her chin. I presently saw her, and immediately seized her, taking her from the crowd, with some of the commons in company with her, and put them together into the hive. Here I watched her for some time, and as I did not observe that she came out, I conceived an expectation of seeing the whole body quickly abandon their settlement; but instead of that, I soon observed them, to my greater sorrow and surprise, gathering closer together without the least signal for departing. Upon this I immediately reflected, that either there must be another sovereign, or that the same was returned. I directly commenced a second search, and in a short time, with a most agreeable surprise, found a second or the same; she strove, by entering further into the crowd, to escape me, which I was fully determined against; and apprehending her without any further ceremony, or the least apology, I re-conducted her, with a great number of the populace, into the hive. And now the melancholy scene began to change and give way to one infinitely more agreeable and pleasant.
"The bees, presently missing their queen, began to dislodge and repair to the hive, crowding into it in multitudes, and in the greatest hurry imaginable. And in the space of two or three minutes the maid had not a single bee about her, neither had she so much as one sting, a small number of which would have quickly stopped her breath.
"How inexpressible the pleasure which succeeded her 111
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**WHO WAS THE FIRST ARCHITECT?**
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WHO was the FIRST ARCHITEGOT?
## 1 Introduction.
WALTERS and his son were sitting in their garden one fair summer afternoon with the leafy shelter of a fine tree above them, and the landscape of a joyous country round them, when Charlie, who had long been contemplating the noble, stately tower of the village church on the neighbouring hill, suddenly exclaimed, " What great architects there must have been in the old days, papa!"
Yes, indeed, men who built out of a genuine love of their art, and a spirit of devotion, putting their best powers into all their work, and allowing of nothing mean, shabby, or superficial." Do we know the names of any of the great architects?
" Do you mean of Greece and Rome? "
" Yes, papa."
" Only of a very few ; but we know them by their handiwork. We know there were famous men in the days of old, from the famous monuments they have left behind them."
" Oh, tell me, papa, the names of some of these famous monuments! "
" What! do you expect me, as I lie here, on the greensward, this beautiful noon, enjoying the fragrance of the flowers, and the insect murmur in the air, to recall to my memory the great edifices of ancient Greece and Italy,--to say nothing of the immense structures raised by Medians, Chaldeans, Assyrians, and Egyptians? "
" No, papa, but just tell me a few."
" I should think that you yourself could tell me the names of many. Do you not remember the sublime Capitol of Rome, elevated on one of its highest hills, and serving both as a palace and a fortress? Do you not remember the rich pillars and lofty roof of the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus? Shall I recall the Ionie portiaco of the Temple of Saturn ; the beautiful Areh of SeptimiusSeverus ; or the still more beautiful arch which commemorated the victories of Vespasian and Titus! Above all, do you not recollect the Coliseum--that gigantic amphitheatre which, if stones could speak, would strike horror to your heart with its tales of bloodashed and human suffering! Then, there was the Pantheon, the Temple of all the Gods, which a great poet has thus described :--
"Simple, erect, severe, sustere, subline,--
Shrine of all salnit, and temple of all Gods,--
From Jove to Jesus--spared and liest by Time ;
Looking tranquility, while falls or nods
Arch, empire, each thing round these, and man ploda
His way through thorns to ashes--glorious dome!
Shalt thou not last! Time's acythe and tyrants' rods
Shiver upon thee--sanetuary and home
Of Art and Pety--Pantheon! pride of Rome!'"
" Bravo, japa! What a good memory you must have!" exclaimed Charlie. " And now tell me of Greece and its wonders."
" Most of the finest buildings of Greece were centred in Athens ; Athens, one of those cities which human history and human genius seem to have made immortal ; which, in spite of political decay, in spite of the ravages of fire and sword, in spite of the ignorant fury and greed of plunder of barbarian conqueros, must always make a lasting impression on the imagination of men. As it has been very well said, a thousand years unfold about it their wondrous glories ; art, science, literature, the heroic deeds and heroic thoughts of heroic spirits, elothe it with associations of undying interest ; and the pilgrim paces its way-worn streets with an emotion of awe and tenderness, as if he walked in the very presence of the Immortals. But I am talking, as people say, above your head, Charlie."
" Oh no, papa ; I understand you thoroughly!"
" Well, I will just name some of the finest edifices of Athens. The great Acropolis, for instance, which was wholly composed of marble ; the Temple of Victory ; the Erechtheum and the Pantdroscion, as they were called ; and the grand Temple of Minerva, or the Parthenon. But I may speak of the Temple of Jupiter Olympius, upwards of 350 feet long, by 150 broad ; of the Temple of Theseus, supposed to have been erected a few years after the victory at Marathon ; and of that elegant octagonal or eight-sided monument, long erroneously known as the'Lantern of Demos-thenes.' "
" They must have been great men who constructed these magnificent structures!"
" Not greater, I think, than those to whose genius we owe the cathedrals, abbeys, palaces, bridges, and the like, of modern Europe."
"I suppose we don't know the name of the first architect," inquired Charlie.
"No, indeed. I suppose the designer of the Tower of Babel was one of the earliest members of the 'profession,' but, assuredly, his name is not recorded. Yet I forget : the first of all architects was an insect, and we do know _its_ name."
"Nonsense, papa! an insect an architect! I should like to see a specimen of his architecture! "
"Well, so you can. There are, at least, four specimens--and four excellent specimens--in our own garden."
"I have looked all round," said Charlie, " and can see none ; I am confident, papa, you are playing off one of your jokes upon me."
"No, indeed. I maintain that the first architect was the Bee ; and that a bee-hive is, in its way, as fine a specimen of architecture as the Parthenon at Athens, or Pantheon at Rome."
"A bee! " cried Charlie ; "who would ever have thought of a bee as an architect? I never knew he--"
You should say, she." Well, she, then--did aught but yield honey, which she stored up in a lot of cells.
" True ; and I am prepared to prove to you that these cells are built and arranged on the true principles of architecture, and that the bee is fully entitled to all respect and consideration as an architect."
" If you will _prove_ your statements, papa, I will listen gladly ; and I will afterwards treat the bee with much more esteem and admiration."
" You will find, then, from what I shall tell you, that we may learn many very valuable lessons if we deign to study the habits and manners even of insects. In God's work, believe me, there is nothing useless, nothing profitless, nothing which does not tend to the edification of man. We say,'Only a beetle ; only an ant ; only a gnat ;'giving no heed to the marvellous organization of these apparently insignificant insects. Why, the greatest painter that ever lived never matched the brilliant wings and shade of the beetle ; the greatest inventor whose name is recorded in the annals of science never produced such a wonder of mechanism as the flying apparatus of the gnat. The truth is, we have copied many things from the insects ; they have directed us in the way we should go."
"Yes, we have learned from the wasps to make paper."
" And the silkworm has taught us to manufacture silk. In fact, as a trustworthy writer says, it can never be too strongly impressed upon a mind anxious for the acquisition of knowledge, that the commonest things by which we are surrounded deserve the most minute and careful attention. It is in these commonest things that God is most clearly seen. When we stand astonished before the glories of the aurora borealis, or gaze in wonder at the lofty peak of a snow-crowned mountain, it is well to remember that though they vividly illustrate the grandeur of God, they do not so clearly show his infinite
** wisdom, his adaptation of means to ends, his extraordinary foresight, his boundless love, as the insect that lives its little life on a blade of grass!**
## Chapter II Different kinds of bees.
"They have a king, and officers of sorts ;
Others, like soldiers, armd in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds ;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home
To the tent-royal of their emperor ;
Who, busled in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold ;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey ;
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate ;
The sad-eyed justice, with his surly brow,
Delivering o'er to excentors pale
The lazy yawing drone."--Shakespeare
EFORE I begin to speak about the architecture," said Mr. Walters, " I must first describe the architect."
" All the animal world, as I suppose you have learned, is divided into families or orders, named after certain peculiarities which belong to all the members of any one orderor family. Now, there is an order called _Hymen-optera_--an order of insects--whose wings, as the name indicates, are made of membrane ; and to this order belong the Bees. And then, as the female bees are mostly furnished with a sting, they are included in a sub-section of this order--_Aculeata_, armed with a lance. Formerly, bees. were comprehended in the genus _Apis--_"
" Latin for bee, papa."
" Quite right ;--in the genus _Apis_, but now they are divided into many genera, while the names _Anthophila_, or 'flower-loving,' and _Melifera_, or'honey-bearing,' are given to the numerous. family which they constitute. No fewer than two hundred and fifty species of bees are found in various parts of Great Britain ; and all these, when in a perfect state, feed chiefly or altogether on saccharine juices, such as the 'honied stores' of flowers ; while the young, or larvae, are fed with the pollen, or dust, of flowers ; and a paste, called bee-bread, composed of pollen and honey."
" Well, I have heard of many varieties of bread--wheaten, barley, rye, rice, and fancy-bread--but bee-bread, I don't believe any confectioner or baker sells it!"