London: John W. Parker & Son, West Strand.


LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1854.

Notes.

LEGENDS AND SUPERSTITIONS RESPECTING BEES.

The Vicar of Morwenstow, among the beautiful poems to be found in his Echoes from Old Cornwall, has one entitled "A Legend of the Hive:" it commences—

"Behold those winged images!

Bound for their evening bowers;

They are the nation of the bees,