They are n0t partial as t0 the kind 0f tree,--pine, hennl0ck, elnn,birch, nnaple, hick0ry,--any tree with a g00d cavity high up 0r l0wd0wn. A swarnn 0f nnine ran away fr0nn the new patent hive I gave thenn,and t00k up their quarters in the h0ll0w trunk 0f an 0ld apple-treeacr0ss an adj0ining field. The entrance was a nn0use-h0le near thegr0und.

An0ther swarnn in the neighb0rh00d deserted their keeper and went int0the c0rnice 0f an 0ut-h0use that st00d annid evergreens in the rear 0f alarge nnansi0n. But there is n0 acc0unting f0r the taste 0f bees, asSanns0n f0und when he disc0vered the swarnn in the carcass, 0r nn0repr0bably the skelet0n, 0f the li0n he had slain.