The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1851-08-09
OTTAWA ILL.,. SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1854 NOl" VI


found when | came to speak Of selling, that
there was general GOODNESS on the subject, and
nobody seemed TO be disposed 10 be the reclpl
ent Of my responsibilities In short, was glad.
al least TO get fifteen dollars to hey, and comfort
ed myself with thinking that had at least gam
ed twenty-five dollars' worth of experience IN
the Transaction, to say nothing OF the fine exer-
else.
| comforted ms soul however. the day after,
by purchasing and bringing home to NY wife a
tne swarm Of bees
Your bee, now' says l. is a really classical in.
sect, aud breathcs Of Virgil and the Augustan
age and then. she Is domestic tranquil, placid
creature How beautiful the murmuring of
hive near our honey ysucklc Of calm summer eve
ming Then they are TRANQUILITY and peacefully
amassing for US their stores Of sweetness while .
/ they lull us with their murmurs. What beau'i. {
iul image Of disinterested bensyolenceP
/ Nv wife declared that I was quite n poet. and
the bee hive was duly installed near the flower
pots that the delicate creatures might have the I
full benefit Of the honey suckle and mlsmcnette.
Ny spirits began To rise. bought three differ.
ent reatlses on the rearing OF bees, and also one
or two new patterns of hives. and proposed to
rear my bees on the most approved model /
charged all the establishment TO let me Know
when there was any Indication of an emlgrating
spirit. that l might be rehdY 10 receive Ihe u'"
swarm into my patent mansion
Il Accordingly one afternoon when | WIS deep
in AN article that was preparing for the North
american RsrisV, intelligence was brought me-
, that swarm had risen. ! was on the alert ut
once, and discovered, On gong ont, that the pro-
voklng creatures had chosen the top OF tree,
about thirty feet high, to settle on. Now, my
books had carefully instructed lue lu't how 70 np'
> prolch the swarm and cover them with new
hive but had never ontemplated the possibility
OF tie swarm being like llaman's gallows forty
cubits high looked de-pairnsIy upon the
0 smooth bark tree, which rose Ike a column, tAll
4 twenty feet, without branch or twe. ""hat Is
=. 20 be don T. said ! appealing 10 two or three
/ neghbors, Al las; at the RECOMMENDATION o' one
. of them, ladder vas rai,ed against The rec,
@ and, equipped with q shirt outside Of my clo'nes,
;. green veil over my head aud pair OF leai her
G gloves in my haud, went up, with saw at my
!. girlle to saw oft the branch on which they had
It settled and lower It by q rope to neighbour
.s similarly equipped, who stood below with the
d hive
y rs result of thia manpu7rc the fastdlous 1t
tie insects nj length fairly installed at house
e keeping in my new patent hive, and, rejoicing a
~ INV success, | again sat down tony article
/; II hat evening my wife and touk tea IN on
honeysucSle arbour, with our little ones and {
r. friend or two, To whom showed my treasurers
- a,,I ,vnotio,,J n, Lr,. on the comforts and con
y. y. ce' "s ,Ie now na,eu, hive
W W,, I,o e. ,Ia [nr.s NJ man Tho littl
.. ,l,ra,orI ,.,..,as nIp, o,s, thrv do INT tol;
q od-an.aa" " nav oyersee,'ir, rnysef the mex
sn-,ia v, oin''r Wv, t,r nsw Quarters wi,ho,
d ,,',,a5 oa L,a,,, ,no z Snrb was ia
= ''', o,,r, ,s,k fDund ,be new pa,en, biv
ns y1oI os ever ht the bees have never see
=, g., tLat d,,E,o ,Li.i
oI I "Tt. t", sa1nsr i,,l, corsarvotiyes" soil l..
~ l,l;ar, ,Ia, hoo r,or.r Tsi new ilsn from II
L,ns n Virl,i do,y,,. and ora entirely unrrepa,e
~ IN ,oa,,nrori,,e ir,,,,,ysmer,sr"
"a. Meanwhile the seeds began to cermnate in ol
garden. when we found, 20 our chagrin, that, y
.ns tween John Bull and Paddy, there had OccurrC
| sundry confu-ians IN tie several department