 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1877 - 588 pages
...would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out....He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1878 - 446 pages
...their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with big finger on the hives, and BO take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 pages
...would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting clown before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out....He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1888 - 602 pages
...would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out....He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1887 - 554 pages
...would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out....has been known to overturn hives for the sake of' honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1887 - 392 pages
...would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out....He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where methegliii was making he would linger round the tubs... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1887 - 396 pages
...would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out....He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs... | |
 | Gilbert White - Biology - 1891 - 840 pages
...would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out....He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1891 - 536 pages
...would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out....He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1895 - 268 pages
...would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out....He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond. Where metheglin was making he would linger round the tubs... | |
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He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird, and very injurious to men that kept bees; for he would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has... 
