The Busy Bee, too, according to Olaus Magnus, developed, in the regions of the North, a peculiarity to which it seems a stranger with us, but which might be encouraged, with beneficial effect, by the Temperance Societies.
The Bees infested drunkards, being drawn to them by the smell of the liquor with which they had soaked their bodies, and stung them.
The Hornet.
So also, up North, they seem to have had a special
breed of Hornets, which must have been ferocious indeed, sparing neither man nor beast, as is evidenced by the corpses, and by the extremely energetic efforts of the yet living man to cope with his enemies.
FOOTNOTES.
[1] Supposed to be Sumatra.