Explanation.—Be Wise in Time.
The bees, attentive to her movements, will surround her, and go to and fro, as if in obedience to the will of the captor of the mother bee.
A swarm can be made to pass from one hive to another at pleasure.
TO PROTECT A HOUSE FROM RATS AND MICE.
The Japanese, from time immemorial, have manufactured china cats, with open eyes, so faithfully copied from nature that one of these toys, with a rush-light inside, will protect a whole house during the night.
The image might contain a clockwork by which an intermittent sound would still farther alarm the rats.
TO SHOW THE FUTURE IN A PAIL OF WATER.
Bid the person desirous of seeing his or her future partner’s face look into a pail of water.
The reflection will certainly be of their own features, but as marriage makes each the other’s, you can safely maintain your credit as a soothsayer. “That face will be your husband’s when you marry.”