THE BUSY BEE.
Some revelations have just been made which throw a disagreeable light on the habits of the busy bee, whose bright example has been the theme of so many moral discourses. The bee is found to be neither more or less than a downright drunkard, when he gets the chance, preferring the easy delights of cordials and spirits to toilsome flights o'er sunny awards and honey-laden flowers. There is a swarm of bees at Kennington who persist in improving the shining hour by gathering honey from spirits and cordials. The bottler applied to the magistrate for protection, but the magistrate remarked that they evidently preferred those insidious liquids to flowers. "It was impossible to muzzle the bees, ferocious though they were, and Sir Charles Warren has not yet issued any edict defining controlso said Mr. Chance. He might have added that if they were intoxicated or disorderly he would be willing to grant a warrant for their apprehension. However, this view did not strike him. If the awful example of the Kenningtonians spreads, Sir Wilfrid Lawson may find in bees a more powerful agent than all the formidable and extensive organisation* of the Alliance.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7782, 30 October 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)
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