...sometimes hear him singing over those lines of Watts, which he had probably learnt in his youth — « How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower ! " How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads her wax ! And labors hard to store...

...right and wrong, by those who have been selected to enjoy it. June, 1848. THE OAK OPENINGS. CHAPTER I. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower. Watt*" Hymn* for CkOJrm. WE have heard of those who fancied that they beheld a signal instance...

...prettily. Mamma said, " Have you nothing to say to these pretty bees, Louisa ?" Then I said to them, " How doth the little busy bee improve each shining...hour, And gather honey all the day from every opening flower." They had a most beautiful flower-bed to gather it from, quite close under the hives. I was...

...sinners take thy Name in vain, And learn to curse, and learn to swear. XX. AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! How skilfully she builds her cell! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store...

...Secondly, let every hour be spent in useful and improving pursuits. " How doth the little busy bee Employ each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower." Young reader, be thou like " tne little busy bee." Employ " each shining hour" of youth in...

...and an incumbrance, a consumer but not a producer, a burden and a pest, a moth, and not a bee : — " How doth the little busy bee improve each shining...hour, And gather honey all the day from every opening flower ! In works of labor, or of skill, I would be busy too, For Satan finds some mischief still for...

...fronting the useful picture of the busy little girls oil the opposite page. Against Idleness and Mischief. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining...hour, And gather honey all the day, From every opening flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours hard to store...

...Impro priety.— 183. Pire, ire, fir. Rover, rore, o»er. Pteal lead, deal.— 184. Dinner.— 185. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every op n ing flower! 186. I found among London Society" (*) a "Family Friend" (6j who subscribed to "Chsuabers's...

...work. I dare say you know the hymn about the busy bee, and now you know what it means where it says, " How skilfully she builds her cell, How neat she spreads her wax, And labours hard to store it well With the sweet food she makes." " Oh, yes," said William, " I suppose...

...immediately put down a quantity of wheat near their habitation. AGAINST IDLENESS. How doth the little husy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From ev'ry op'ning flower ! How skilfully she builds her cell ! How neat she spreads the wax ! And labours...