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When the
bees are seen sucking the flowers, their pursuer contrives to
capture one or two. He then chooses a proper spot, and suffering
one to escape, the insect invariably takes its flight towards the
hive. Changing his ground to a greater or less distance according
to circumstances, the bee-hunter then permits another to escape.
Having watched the courses of the bees, which is technically
called lining, he is enabled to calculate the intersecting angle
of the two lines, which is the hive.
"Ay! that is another of their wanton wickednesses!" exclaimed the
trapper. "They slay the buck, and the moose, and the wild cat, and all
the beasts that range the woods, and stuffing them with worthless
rags, and placing eyes of glass into their heads, they set them up to
be stared at, and call them the creatur's of the Lord; as if any
mortal effigy could equal the works of his hand!"
"I know you well," returned the Doctor, on whom the plaint of the old
man produced no visible impression.


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