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"Yes, actionable under statute made and provided, wilfully to spoil or destroy any timber or other trees, roots, shrubs, or plants; value of said bee-tree three dollars; levari facias! The quotient is unsatisfactory to Isaac and Jacob Cannon." The eyes of the elder and smaller brother endeavored to have an introduction to each other through the bridge of his nose.
By a long course of usury and legal persecution the Cannon brothers had become detested in their own community, and when they sued O'Day, or Daw, for cutting down a bee-tree on one of their farms he had tilled, and then enforced the judgment of ten dollars, Daw, now a man in growth and of Celtic vindictiveness, loaded his gun and started for Cannon's Ferry, and waylaid Jacob just as he was leading his horse off the ferry scow.
He was a kind hearted, good sort of a fellow, but he had, while in the army, one unfortunate weakness, the same being a voracious appetite for intoxicating liquor. And he had a remarkable faculty for getting the stuff, under any and all circumstances. He could nose it out, in some way, as surely and readily as a bear could find a bee-tree.
Then, having perfect freedom to go whithersoever we chose and to follow the bees across the boundless fields of ancient literature, we might read of the wild bees and of their honey out of a rock, and of the hive-bees too, in Homer; follow them to their first legendary home in Crete, where the infant Jupiter was fed on honey as a baby's lips are touched with it even unto this day; trace their association with Proserpine and her mother, or their subtler connexion with Ephesian Diana; find in the poets, from Hesiod to the later Anthology, a hundred sweet references to the bee-tree in the oak-wood, to the flowery hill Hymettus.
The bees have been here many years, and have of course sent out swarm after swarm into the wilds. they have protected themselves against the weather and strengthened their shaky habitation by a copious use of wax. When a bee-tree is thus "taken up" in the middle of the day, of course a good many bees are away from home and have not heard the news.
"By cash or judgment-note, captain?" "Cash," answered Van Dorn, modestly; "take it out of this double-eagle, with Madam Cannon's rent for your farm." "There's a tree a bee-tree, Brother Jacob, I think you said cut down from Mrs. Cannon's field?"
One night on the Potomac a party of us unwittingly made our camp near the foot of a bee-tree, which next day the winds of heaven blew down, for our special delectation, at least so we read the sign. Another time, while sitting by a waterfall in the leafless April woods, I discovered a swarm in the top of a large hickory.
Lemme off dis time, en I won't never do so no mo'. Oh, pray, Brer B'ar! do lemme off dis time, en I'll show you de fattes' bee-tree in de woods. "Ole Brer B'ar, he chomp his toofies en foam at de mouf. Brer Bull-frog he des up'n squall: "'Oh, pray, Brer B'ar! I won't never do so no mo'! Oh, pray, Brer B'ar! Lemme off dis time!
On several occasions I have unwittingly set my box within a few paces of a bee-tree and waited long for bees without getting them, when, on removing to a distant field or opening in the woods I have got a clew at once. I have a theory that when bees leave the hive, unless there is some special attraction in some other direction, they generally go against the wind.
Among bears that is thought to be the very best thing to do for bee-stings. After a while Cuffy stopped crying. And it was not long before he had fallen asleep. But it was two days before Cuffy Bear felt really himself again. And then his father went off into the forest with him and Cuffy led the way to the bee-tree; for Mr.
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