 | Early English newspapers - 1789 - 640 pages
...bee-gardens, ar.d, fitting down before the ftools, would rap with his finger on the hive?, and fo tAe the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the fake of honey, of xvhich he was palfiouately fond. Where im'thcghn was tiukinf, he woul.l linger round the... | |
 | English poetry - 1789 - 602 pages
...bee-gardens, and, fitting down before their ftools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and fo taKe the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the lake of honey, of which he iv я s paflionately fond. Where metheglm was making, he would ger round... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1827 - 394 pages
...bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making, he would linger round... | |
 | Priscilla Wakefield - Natural history - 1828 - 256 pages
...were kept, and sitting down before the stools, would rap with his fingers upon the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives, for the sake of the honey, of which he was immoderately fond; and, as if his imagination was impressed by this... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making, he would linger round... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making, he would linger round... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making, he would linger round... | |
 | William Chambers - Literature - 1837 - 352 pages
...bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making, he would linger round... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1837 - 680 pages
...bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round... | |
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He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird, and very injurious to men that kept bees; for he would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has... 
