initial commit of ebook 38902HEADmain

1 files changed, 1938 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/38902.txt b/38902.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e008007
--- /dev/null
+++ b/38902.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,1938 @@
+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Buzz a Buzz, by Wilhelm Busch
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Buzz a Buzz
+       or The Bees
+
+Author: Wilhelm Busch
+
+Translator: William Charles Cotton
+
+Release Date: February 16, 2012 [EBook #38902]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUZZ A BUZZ ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was
+produced from images generously made available by The
+Internet Archive)
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+  BUZZ A BUZZ
+  OR THE BEES
+
+
+  DONE INTO ENGLISH FROM
+  THE GERMAN OF WM. BUSCH.
+  AUTHOR OF "MY BEE BOOK"
+
+
+  LONDON
+  GRIFFITH & FARRAN
+
+  CHESTER
+  PHILLIPSON & GOLDER
+
+
+
+
+  Buzz a Buzz
+  or
+  The Bees
+
+  Done freely into
+  English
+
+
+  BY THE AUTHOR
+  [Illustration]
+  OF MY BEE BOOK
+
+
+  from the German
+  of
+  Wilhelm Busch.
+
+
+  LONDON: GRIFFITH & FARRAN.
+  CHESTER: PHILLIPSON & GOLDER.
+
+
+
+
+Preface.
+
+EXPLANATORY.
+
+
+I must say a few words in explanation of the somewhat novel form which
+my new "Bee-Book" has taken, and which, doubtless, will be a surprise to
+the many Bee-Friends who are waiting with exemplary patience for the
+second edition of my original "Bee-Book," soon about to appear after an
+interval of thirty years from the publication of the first edition.
+
+I happened last year to be at the Cologne Station, waiting for the
+train, and employed my spare time in looking over the book stall for
+something to read on my way to Aix-la-Chapelle. The stall was covered
+with books about the late War. I had returned from a visit to the Battle
+Fields of 1870, and was sick of the subject. I wanted something of a
+more peaceful nature, and I was turning away, without making a purchase,
+when a book met my eye entitled _Schnurrdiburr_. What that might mean I
+knew not, but the second title, _oder die Bienen_, was intelligible, and
+had attraction enough for me. I opened it, and saw it was profusely
+illustrated with very comical cuts. I paid my Thaler and carried away my
+prize.
+
+The cuts are reproduced in the book which my readers have in their
+hands. The verses were written up to the pictures rather than translated
+from the German text; for alas! my German is very limited; enough for
+travelling purposes, but hardly enough to enable me to read a Bee-Book
+either serious or comical.
+
+
+RIDENTEM DICERE VERUM QUID VETAT?
+
+There is much truth lying hid under these comical stories; still more in
+the illustrations; and the notes which I have appended may be found
+useful even by serious Bee-Masters.
+
+I promise my readers that they shall have the second edition of "MY BEE
+BOOK" as perfect as I can make it, and with as little delay as possible.
+
+I trust it may be much nearer perfection than the first edition,
+published under great difficulties, could be, and I hope it may have as
+many purchasers as this its forerunner.
+
+                                                                W. C. C.
+
+  _Frodsham_, _Cheshire_,
+              _September_, 1872.
+
+
+
+
+Prelude.
+
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Hail Muse etc.! Bring me Peggy,
+  My antient steed, now somewhat leggy;
+  Not him who on Parnassus green
+  Erst fed, and drank of Hippocrene;
+  But such, as to supply the trade,
+  At Nuremburg by scores are made.--
+  I mount him, and will now indite
+  A Bee-book for my own delight,
+  I'll sing of Johnny Dull: his pig,
+  Made by his bees exceeding big;
+  And of his daughter fair Christine,
+  Of her queer lover Dicky Dean,
+  And of his nephew rogue Eugene--
+  Of honey-robbers I will tell,
+  And bears, and bull-frogs, ghosts as well--
+  All which my readers may discover
+  Who con this true tale ten times over--
+  Or make ten other Bee Friends buy it;
+  For three and six I can supply it.
+
+
+
+
+Fytte I. Bee Life.
+
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  All hail! thou lovely month of May,
+  With parti-coloured flowers gay!
+  And hail to you, my darling Bees;
+  Much wealth you gain on days like these.
+  From morn to eve a humming sound
+  About the bee-house circles round.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The sentinels, in armour bright,
+  Keep watch and ward throughout the night;
+  And drive away, constrained by oath,
+  The mice, and toads, and Death's head moth.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  At early dawn 'tis quite a treat
+  To see them work, they are so neat;
+  Some clean their house with brooms and mops,
+  And others empty out the slops.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The architects, by rule and line,
+  Their future cells with skill define;
+  The ever toiling workers these--
+  Meanwhile the Queen, she takes her ease;
+  Sole mother of the winged nation,
+  Her only work is propagation.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The egg she lays; the nurses hatch
+  That egg, and in the cradle watch.
+  The babe to swaddle, and prepare
+  The pap-boat, is their constant care.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  All day, in regal state, the Queen
+  Encircled by her court is seen;
+  Their backs they never rudely turn:
+  Good manners they by instinct learn.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  And when night comes she goes to bed,
+  And on the pillow lays her head;
+  Whilst by her side her faithful drone
+  Profoundly snores, for they are one.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  They send for letters ere they rise;
+  For just at ten they ope their eyes.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The post office is in a flower,
+  Which opens at a certain hour,
+  Miss Crocus keeps it, fresh and fair;
+  The tresses of her flowing hair
+  They glitter like the purest gold;
+  And by her saffron cakes are sold.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Near is the pothouse where both grog
+  Is served to Bumble-Bees, and prog;
+  And when the Bumble-Bees get groggy,
+  Their intellect, like men's, is foggy.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  On rose leaves they their letters write,
+  Here's one they either wrote or might.
+  "Great Queen, we hope you'll swarm to day";
+  "For 'is a lovely first of May."
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The messenger this letter takes,
+  And eke a store of saffron cakes.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The Drones they neither work, nor can
+  Do aught but sleep on a divan;
+  And smoke their pipes through all the day;
+  Chibouks these love, and those a clay.
+  Such is their life--who would not be
+  A happy little worker Bee;
+  A Queen's too high for me,--a Drone,
+  Such laziness I let alone.
+
+
+
+
+Fytte II. The Pig.
+
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Now Johnny Dull had once a pig,--
+  'T was far from fat, its bones were big.
+  To scratch his hide with all his might
+  Was this poor piggie's sole delight.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Once on a time it so fell out
+  He in the garden roamed about:
+  He chanced to have an itching mood;
+  The bee house quite convenient stood--
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  His hide he scratched; the bees rushed out,
+  And stung him well from tail to snout--
+  Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! poor piggie cried,
+  Feeling these daggers pierce his hide.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  John Dull, who heard the awful clatter,
+  Said, "Bless the pig! why what's the matter?"
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  He came,--he saw--, his porker, that
+  Was erst all lean, was now all fat.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  It chanced a pig-jobber that way
+  Was passing by; he stopped to say
+  "How much friend Dull for that fat pig?"
+  "Just ten pounds ten, for he is big"--
+  "Done"--"done again"--the bargain's struck--
+  John Dull he found himself in luck,
+  And blest his bees, and in their praise
+  He chanted forth these jocund lays.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Fly forth, dear Bees, 'tis morn, fly forth
+  To South, to North, to West, to East;
+  And cull from every fragrant flower
+            A honied feast.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  Fly Home, dear Bees, 'tis Eve, fly home!
+  From North, from South, from East, from West;
+  Store in your cells your luscious spoil,
+            And sweetly rest.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The air is clear the day is warm,
+  John Dull sits watching for a swarm;
+  What's this? he thought; while I've been talking
+  My bees are all prepared for walking,
+  Staves in their hands, and on his back
+  Each carries his provision pack.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  He strains his sight into the hole;
+  "They'll swarm to day--upon my soul."
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  His brain swims round, his eyes feel heavy,
+  He sees no more the increasing levee.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  His nose, as down and down it drops,
+  His half used pipe of 'bacca stops.--
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Buzz, buzz!--Hum, hum! a joyful sound,
+  Echoes the teeming hive around.
+  All gather at the trumpet's clang
+  To hear their noble Queen's harangue.--
+
+  "Up children up, to swarm prepare"
+  "The honey thief sits stinking there."
+  "And we who love the scent of roses"
+  "Have stale tobacco in our noses."
+  "We toil, we sweat from early May"
+  "To lay up for a rainy day."
+  "Our cells we fill, and at the Fall"
+  "He sulphers us, and takes it all."
+  "So let us one and all deride"
+  "This honey thief, this Bee-i-cide."
+  "Up children, up! to swarm prepare"
+  "Whilst Master Dull sits snoring there."
+  "A devil he, upon my troth:"
+  "Buzz! buzz! Hum! Hum! The swarm is off!"
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Fytte III. The Rivals.
+
+
+  "Nothing like soup," is still the cry
+  In each well ordered family;
+  So on Christine the duty fell
+  To cull the herbs they love so well;
+  And every morn, the charming maid
+  Within her father's garden strayed,
+  Parsley to pluck, wherewith to make
+  The soup, which they at noon should take.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Her father's garden marched, I ween,
+  With that of Mr. Richard Dean;
+  A school-master by trade was he,
+  And she esteemed him--maidenly.
+  But by degrees, within her soul
+  A softer, tenderer passion stole;
+  Love--full of joy and full of sorrow,
+  Sunshine to day, and storm to-morrow,--
+  Love may forget a parsley bed,
+  And dream of golden flowers instead.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  And so the maiden stooped to cull a
+  Crocus, and an auricula.
+  These flowers, together-bound, she placed
+  Just half a foot above her waist.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Then sat her down beneath the shade,
+  And thought about him--happy maid.
+
+  Now Mr. Dull a nephew had,
+  A most audacious, awkward lad;
+  Some fifteen summers he had seen
+  And still was very, very green.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Christine he eyed, and with desire
+  He felt his little soul on fire.
+  With cat like pace behind the wall
+  He crept (he was not near as tall.)
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Leapt up, and from the affrighted Miss
+  Ravished the much desired kiss.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "Stop little monster", and a whack
+  Descended on his upturned back--
+  (The place I cannot more define
+  Within the limits of a line)
+  --Side, I should add, but wherefore tell
+  What every school-boy knows so well.
+  Dick Dean so roundly plied the stick
+  That rogue Eugene skedaddled quick.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Then Richard raised the fainting maid,
+  And many a tender thing he said;
+  Her chin he chucked, his arm he placed
+  About her little taper waist;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Her flowers admired, and begged them too:
+  Christine, she knew not what to do;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  But blushed assent; the flowers he took,
+  And thanked her with an ardent look.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "Sweets are repaid by sweets I wiss",
+  He said, and he too had a kiss.
+  "Adieu and--au revoir--" to night
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Pray let us meet, my heart's delight,
+  Behind your father's Bee-house, when
+  The Church-clock shall have sounded ten.
+  Eugene, still smarting with the cane,
+  His heart on fire, with jealous pain,
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  O'erheard the place of assignation,
+  And crept out from his hidden station;
+  Rushed to the Bee-house, found John Dull
+  Asleep, and snoring like a bull.
+  "Wake, Uncle, wake" in startling tone
+  He shouted, "for your swarm is gone."
+
+
+
+
+Fytte IV. The Swarm.
+
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  John Dull, awakened from his slumber,
+  Observed his stock's diminished number;
+  His apple trees he searched, and found
+  The swarm some ten feet from the ground;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Got his bee dress, his hive, and ladder;
+  No Bee master was ever gladder.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Mounted, and without any trip
+  Got all the bees within the skip--
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "Well done I have them;" as he spoke
+  The ladder's top-most rung it broke,
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Crack! Crack! and, as I hope to thrive,
+  The same befel the other five;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The bees rush forth and quit the hive!
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  John on his knees, and free from harm
+  Marked well the disappearing swarm.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Two boys were making pies of dirt
+  Close by, and playing with a squirt;
+  They squirted at the bees to stop 'em,
+  Squirted in vain; they could not drop 'em.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Old Sally met them with her mop,
+  And Sammy trumpeted, stop! stop!
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  And Dick and Bob and Bill they screeched,
+  But not a sound these flyers reached--
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  A Sweep upon the chimney top
+  Showered soot upon them, and cried "Stop!"
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  When they had cleared the churches roof,
+  Sam Dutton put his gun to proof;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  John Dull came panting up behind
+  And could no other stopper find;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  He stamped and swore and scratched his head,
+  "A pretty dance I have been led,"
+  "Confound the bees; I've got a warming"
+  Some way I'll find to stop their swarming;
+  A hive I'll build as big as two,
+  Sold by Mancubrian P.tt.gr.w.
+
+
+
+
+Fytte V. The Patent Monster Hive.
+
+
+  Adverse events reveal the real man,
+  So Horace wrote, refute this truth who can.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  And John Dull to its full completion wrought
+  The inspiration of his sudden thought.
+  "Room for the swarm!" This is great Nature's law,
+  And so he built two monstrous hives of straw.--
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "Good morning neighbour" from across the fence
+  Cried out Dick Dean. "May I without offence"
+  "Ask what your making." "Why these blessed bees,"
+  "I find them creatures plaguey hard to please."
+
+  "Plaguey! dont say so--they're a real pleasure,"
+  "I love to watch them when I have the leisure;"
+  "Besides each scholar knows in antient days,"
+  "How Maro sung his little darlings praise."
+  "And when the Roman legions brought alarm"
+  "To every inmate of his Mantuan farm,--"
+  "Smiling he stood, amidst his winged host;"
+  "The mailed warriors fled and left him at his post."
+
+  "All this I know--Beekeeping would be charming,"
+  "If there was never such a thing as swarming."
+
+  "But grubs my friend! your bees are sure to breed,"
+  "Swarms come from grubs, as corn crops come from seed."
+  "Grubs you must have; and when your swarming's done,"
+  "Two hives you'll find, where erst you had but one."
+
+  "Bother the grubs; I know a better way,"
+  "My patent monster hives, they are the things to pay."
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Fytte VI. The Bear.
+
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Eugene would often take his lunch,
+  Of dry black bread a monstrous hunch,
+  Into a wood--ere he got through it
+  He wished he'd some nice honey to it--
+  When all at once it chanced a bee
+  He saw creep up a hollow tree;
+  Another came, then two, and three.
+  "Hurrah! there's honey here for me,"
+  Eugene exclaimed, "No more I'll eat
+  This nasty bread, but have a treat."--
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "Honey for ever!" up he clomb
+  To the trees fork--the honey comb
+  He saw below him in the beech
+  Hollowed by age, beyond his reach--
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  His hold he missed and sad to tell
+  Down midst the honey combs he fell;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Into the cakes his boots went crush,
+  As though it were mere muddy slush.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Honey he found but every school-boy knows
+  He cannot eat his sweetmeats with his clothes.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Another Bee Hunter that way
+  One Mister Bruin chanced to stray;
+  A dancing Bear by trade was he,
+  But fond of honey--certainly!
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "If I smell right here's honey comb";
+  He said, or thought; then upwards clomb.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Eugene below, half dead with fear,
+  Saw the bears hinder's drawing near,
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  With both hands gripped him tight and had a
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Mount upwards by this living ladder;
+  Sure never little lad was gladder.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Meanwhile John Dull, a spying round,
+  The self same honey tree had found;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Up to the fork himself he reared
+  When Bruin's ugly mug appeared.
+  Augh, back he fell through utter fright;
+  Close to his tail did Braun alight;
+  And by Braun's heels Braun's parasite.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Braun seized John Dull with either claw,
+  Just as himself was seized before;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  John pulling out his hunting knife
+  Cut off his tail to save his life;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Sam Dutton here did interveen,
+  "To shoot that grizzly bear I mean"!
+  But Braun was nowhere to be seen.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Early next morn came sawyers two,
+  And sawed the Honey tree right through;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  There stuck the boots of young Eugene;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  He drew them out, and licked them clean;
+  Such blacking ne'er before was seen!
+  While John Dull, from the luscious store,
+  Filled twenty honey pots or more.
+
+
+
+
+Fytte VII. The Frog.
+
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "The appetite with eating grows"--
+  This truth my little story shows.
+  For many a day the rogue Eugene
+  To John Dull's bee-hives creeps unseen;
+  Smokes them,--Puff!--Puff!--then boldly takes
+  The much desired honey cakes.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  When lo! one day the angry swarm
+  Out on him rushed--the day was warm;
+  They covered him from top to toe,
+  Behind, before, above, below,
+  They buzzed, they crawled, they stung him,--Oh!
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Eugene half stifled, for his nose
+  And mouth were covered like his clothes,
+  Rushed to the nearest water-pit,
+  And took a header into it;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Rose through the Bee-besprinkled foam,
+  And ran, all dripping, to his home.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Felt quite unwell! The doctor came
+  And to his illness gave a name.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "By aid of careful auscultation,"
+  "And thinking on his late natation,"
+  "I think, I think that I deskiver,"
+  "A frog within this dear boy's liver."
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "I'll get him up." A bee he took,
+  Impaled it on a fishing-hook;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Played it within his open jaws,
+  A bite! and up the frog he draws;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Frog to the open window took,
+  And cut the line close by the hook;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Frog to the pool, rejoicing, hopped;
+  And plump into the water dropped.
+  Then chanted his Batrachian lay
+  Quite in th' Artistophanic way;
+  "Brekekekek, coax, coax,
+  Coax, coax, Brekekekek."
+
+
+
+
+Fytte VIII. The Ghost.
+
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Forbidden fruit is sweet they say;
+  And so its gathered every day;
+  And should this fruit be sweet before,
+  Forbid it, and 'tis ten times more.
+  Eugene oft coveted the pot
+  Of honey that John Dull had got
+  Placed on the shelf above his head,
+  For safety, when he went to bed;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  John slept, John snored; then ope'd his eyes
+  And stared about him with surprise.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "What's this I see come crawling on?"
+  "Sure, 'tis a strange phenomenon."
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  A winged beast, with tail, and claws
+  On his four feet, which end in paws.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  With stealthy pace on on it crawled,
+  John turned upon his face, and bawled.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  John's hair as this strange beast drew near
+  His night cap raised for very fear.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  On its hind legs itself it reared,
+  As it its squalling master neared,
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Nearer still nearer--till he got
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The much desired honey pot.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Turns tail and runs; whilst Johnnie sits
+  Bolt up, divested of his wits.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  A pearly drop on every hair
+  Hangs pendant, not from heat, but fear.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Eugene his garret sought, and there
+  Ate honey, like his friend the bear,
+  The pot he emptied mighty soon,
+  Using his paws instead of spoon.
+
+
+
+
+Fytte IX. The Honey Thief.
+
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The flowers which Christine culled at morn
+  At eve were withered, and forlorn.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  These withered flowers Dick sadly took,
+  And placed them in his music book;
+  Then put the book upon the table,
+  And pressed, the best that he was able.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The pressed flowers took a wondrous shape,
+  Which seemed the human form to ape;
+  And in these specimens, Christine
+  Is imaged, and her Dicky Dean.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Ten sounded from the old church tower--
+  Before the last stroke of the hour,
+  Close by the bee-house Richard Dean,
+  His last new coat on, might be seen;
+  Christine, arrayed in all her charms,
+  Was there, and rushed into his arms.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "Hist! what's that sound?" alack! alack!
+  A thief, with crotchet at his back--
+  A Honey thief--ill may he thrive.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Each crept into a monster hive.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The thief peered round; "This will I take"--
+  "This big one will my fortune make."
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Then hoisted Dicky, hive and all,
+  Upon his back so lean, so tall--
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "Halt," shouted Dicky, and the head
+  Of his strange monture bonneted;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Held him down tight, and with a stick
+  Passed 'twixt his legs, secured him quick.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  And Christine, what must she have felt
+  While Bruin round about her smelt?
+  Out of the hive she softly stole;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  In crept the bear and through the hole
+  At the hive's top he poked his nose;
+  Christine her ready courage shows,
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  She through his nose ring passed a stick,
+  Which from the ground she happed to pick.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Poor Bruin rolled upon his back,
+  And grunted out alas! alack!
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  So after all these strange alarms,
+  Again Dick rushed into her arms.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  John Dull by chance came strolling by,
+  His hives upset first met his eye;
+  He saw they both were tenanted--
+  Amazed he looked, then scratched his head;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Peered all around, espied Christine
+  And her own true love Dicky Dean;
+  Behind the bee house they were placed,
+  And Dicky's arm was round her waist.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "Come here" he cried "you little chit,"
+  "I understand it not a bit"--
+  Upon their knees they both fell down,
+  And the whole mystery made known.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The father heard them all declare,
+  Then gave his blessing to the pair.
+  "Bless you my Christine: Dick I bless"
+  "With stores of wedded happiness."
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Then came the dramatis personae;
+  The tall, the short, the fat, the bony.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Sam Dutton thought to get a shot,
+  Now Bruin could no longer trot.
+  But Sally interposed her mop,
+  And to his shooting put a stop.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The night watch came, and 'twixt them bore
+  The skewer'd thief to the prison door.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  And came the bear leader as well,
+  And took poor Bruin to his cell.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Sam with his trumpet blew a rally,
+  And Hip, Hurrah! cried ancient Sally.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Long live both empty hives and full,
+  Long live Dick Dean and Johnny Dull.
+
+
+
+
+Fytte X. The Queen Bee's Fete.
+
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The night is warm, and many a nose
+  Upturned, is snoring in repose;
+  Whilst every tree and every flower
+  Rejoices in that witching hour.
+  And o'er John Dull his garden beds,
+  The moon her gentle influence sheds.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  'Tis May the first, the Queen bee's fete!
+  And she, in all her regal state,
+  Beneath her fairy hall of roses
+  With her beloved drone reposes.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  She nods a sign; the bombardier
+  Awakes the echoes far and near.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Whilst tinkle, tinkle, clang! clang! bang!
+  The Court musicians' strain out-rang.
+  The fly he blows the shrill trompette,
+  The gnat the softer clarionette;
+  The grasshopper, a fiddler he--
+  The drummer is the bumble bee.--
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The Willow-beetle, such a swell,
+  With young Sabina waltzes well;
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Liz too and Kitty have their swains,
+  Who one and all are taking pains
+  To make themselves agreeable,
+  Each to his own peculiar belle.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The Stag-Beetle, that beau precise,
+  Regales his partner with an ice.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The Moon, upon the Apple Tree,
+  Surveys, well pleased, the revelry.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Two cockchafers soon quit the dance;
+  They cannot bear the piercing glance
+  Of their fair partners--see them set
+  Within a private cabinet.
+  They smoke, they sing, they drink until
+  Their little polished paunch they fill.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  Their homes they cannot find--alas!
+  They tumble backward on the grass.
+  "To whit" "To whoo" policeman Owl,
+  The wisest of all feathered fowl,
+  Hoots out; "why here's a precious go,"
+  "Drunk and incapable, ho! ho!"
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  "So come along, I know you well;"--
+  He said, and drove them to his cell.
+  Were they discharged? No, never more,
+  That cell it was an abattoir.
+  The owl supped on the elder Brother,
+  And for his breakfast ate the other.
+  So you, who think a dance divine,
+  Mind--never take excess of wine.
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  The Evening star went flicker--flick--
+  Over the bedroom candlestick;
+  And round its silver radiance shed
+  To light the sleepy moon to bed.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+  [Illustration]
+
+  I've done--I doff my riding gear,
+  And order Pegasus--HIS BEER.
+
+
+
+
+Notes on Buzz-a-Buzz,
+
+APIARIAN, CLASSICAL, POETICAL, AND NONDESCRIPT.
+
+
+PRELUDE.
+
+
+  HAIL MUSE! &c.--An Invocation to the Muses, both terse and expressive.
+    Possibly not quite original, as I have a dim recollection that a
+    certain obscure poet called Byron, whose works are now well nigh
+    forgotten, made use of it.
+
+
+  PEGGY.--A name dear to the writer, as that of the first pony which
+    he ever had of his very own--the gift of a kind Godfather--of a
+    different sex indeed from Pegasus. There is, therefore, some hopes
+    that the breed may have been preserved, but, as far as my
+    experience goes, I may regretfully say,
+
+        Quando ullam inveniam parem.
+
+    I have, alas, grown stout; and it requires a strong cob to carry
+    twenty stone, and go lively under it as well. Such a mount fetches
+    a long price, which does not suit a short purse; and such
+    Godfathers, alas! _abierunt ad plures_; their successors give no
+    such gifts to their Godchildren.
+
+
+  PARNASSUS GREEN.--Not at all the same sort of place as Paddington
+    Green. The latter is now familiarly haunted by our Comic song
+    writers, those most dolorous of all funny men. Parnassus Green
+    stands, from the necessity of rhyme, for Green Parnassus.
+
+
+  HIPPOCRENE.--The first horse drinking fountain, and produced,
+    moreover, by a stamp of Peggy's hoof. This would be a good subject
+    for a drinking fountain of the present day. I make a present of the
+    idea to any young sculptor who has a commission from one of our
+    merchant princes, and is hard up for a subject. The most approved
+    receipt for developing a poetic temperament was to sleep on
+    Parnassus, and drink of Hippocrene in the morn. Persius has it,
+
+        "Non fonte labra prolui caballino,
+        Nec in bicipiti somniasse Parnasso
+        Memini, ut repente sic poeta prodirem."
+
+    No more have I; and perhaps some of my readers may say that I
+    should have done better had I waited for a sleep on Parnassus, and
+    a drink of Hippocrene before I began to write. All I can say is, I
+    hope to take one next year, if I visit Greece.
+
+
+  FYTTE I.--_Page 1-7._--The fun of this first Fytte will be "real
+    nuts" to every Bee-master. The whole economy of a Hive is viewed
+    from a human stand-point. The sentinels watching with their own
+    stings in their hands as lances; the early labours of the chamber
+    and house maids; the architects setting out the day's work; the
+    swaddling clothes and pap boat for the Grub Royal; the State of the
+    Queen; the idleness of the drones: all is well told, at least in
+    the wood cuts.
+
+
+  "PIG IN THE GARDEN STRAYED AROUND."--_Page 8._--A very improper
+    place for Pig to take his constitutional walk. The wicket gate
+    which leads to your Hives should be always properly secured, or
+    results very different from the fattening of a pig may be produced.
+    For what is possible, though not very probable, see one of the
+    early chapters of Maryatt's Mr. Midshipman Easy.
+
+
+  "WAS ERST ALL LEAN, WAS NOW ALL FAT."--_Page 10._--The alteration
+    of the animal tissue in consequence of a sting is very wonderful;
+    it is certainly not fat which is deposited. So that this method of
+    getting Bacon Pigs ready for market, though it would save corn,
+    would not be satisfactory to the Bacon Curer when he puts his
+    flitches in salt, still less to the cook, when frying a rasher.
+
+
+  "FLY FORTH, DEAR BEE, 'TIS MORN, FLY FORTH."--_Page 11._--I shall
+    be obliged to any one of my many friends, skilled in Musical
+    Composition, if they will set this original Bee song. The prelude
+    and refrain offer a fine opportunity for a Buzz-a-Buzz effect. On
+    receipt of a satisfactory production I will forward to the Composer
+    a bound copy of _Buzz-a-Buzz_, with the translator's autograph.
+    Inestimable reward!
+
+
+  JOHN DULL SITS WAITING FOR A SWARM.--_Page 11._--as I have done for
+    many an hour, and lost the swarm after all. John Dull drops asleep
+    whilst watching. I have often ceased watching just as the swarm was
+    about to rise. The Bees choose their own time, which is not always
+    that which the Bee master would for them. But the whole subject of
+    swarming, and how to regulate it, or prevent it, will be fully
+    treated of in the forthcoming second edition of "My Bee Book."
+
+
+  "THIS HONEY THIEF, THIS BEE-I-CIDE."--_Page 14._--This latter word
+    is the invention of the learned Doctor Cumming, the Times'
+    Bee-master. See a most stunning article on his Bee-Book in the
+    Saturday Review, the second or third number for December, 1864. The
+    proverbial thickness of a Scotchman's skin can alone have preserved
+    him from dying from the effects of this stinging article. "Docte
+    Commenas utriusque linquoe" say I.
+
+
+  "CULL A CROCUS AND AN AURICULA."--_Page 17._--The last word was
+    indeed a difficult one to hitch into rhyme. It has, however, been,
+    I think, successfully overcome. I might have added another line,
+    and made a triplet,
+
+        "Flowers which her Richard loved particular,"
+
+    but I had compassion on the ears of my readers.
+
+
+  "THE PLACE I CANNOT MORE DEFINE,
+  "WITHIN THE LIMITS OF A LINE."--_Page 19._
+
+    I well remember, when an Eton boy, walking in the playing fields
+    with a late revered and beloved prelate, then a Fellow of Eton,
+    whose memory is dear to every Etonian who knew him, as that of a
+    kind friend and finished scholar,--such as alas! seem extinct in
+    these degenerate days. He was living in a picturesque old house,
+    "The Warf," now destroyed, that his two sons, then at Eton, might
+    still have the benefit of home associations. His daughters, and
+    their French governess, accompanied us in this well-remembered
+    stroll. Mademoiselle was very curious as to how the Eton boys were
+    punished. She wanted all the details, and asked if they were
+    whipped on their backs. The question made us all look foolish, but
+    Dr. L. with a twinkle of his eyes, which marked his appreciation of
+    the _situation_, answered, "A little lower down, Mademoiselle, a
+    little lower down."
+
+
+  "FETCHED HIS BEE DRESS, HIS HIVE, HIS LADDER."--_Page 23._--A
+    veritable Guy Mr. Dull looks in his defensive armour! A simpler
+    and equally efficient dress may be made of a black net bag,
+    large enough to be drawn over a straw or felt hat, with a brim
+    sufficiently wide to keep the net away from the prominent organ,
+    the nose, and long enough to be buttoned into the Bee-master's
+    coat. A couple of elastic bands round the wrists will prevent the
+    Bees crawling up his sleeves, the same round the ancles will secure
+    the most timorous Bee master. "A Lady's dress I cannot pretend to
+    regulate." See "My Bee Book," where many instances of the effect of
+    stings are given. When swarming, Bees are particularly gentle, and
+    never sting, except when some are crushed. A true Bee-master will
+    despise such defensive armour, but trust rather to his gentleness
+    and knowledge of the habits of his Bees for his immunity from
+    stings. Should he be stung, nevertheless, in spite of all
+    precautions, let him instantly extract the sting, and apply a drop
+    of honey to the place. This will immediately allay the smarting
+    pain, and the swelling, except in certain places, as the eye or
+    lip, be trifling. _Eau de Luce_ as it is commonly called, that is,
+    strong ammonia, is another excellent remedy; a small bottle should
+    be kept in every apiary in the box of "needments." But above all,
+    let the Bee-master eschew gloves, specially when delicate
+    operations are to be performed. A cat might as soon expect to catch
+    mice in mittens, as a Bee-master to capture a Queen with hands
+    encased in, and fingers stiffened by, thick woollen gloves, as
+    recommended by some.
+
+
+  "SOME WAY I'LL FIND TO STOP THIS SWARMING."--_Page 29._--It is not
+    to be done by monster hives, or ventilation, or by adding supers.
+    If the Bees will swarm, they will. They are a stiff-necked
+    generation, and know their own business, at least they think so,
+    better than we men can teach it them. Our objects, however, are
+    slightly different. Their's to propagate and preserve their
+    species: ours to secure the maximum amount of honey in any given
+    locality. I have known a swarm sent forth from a _Ruche a l'air
+    libre_, a French Hive, which I worked in New Zealand. The Combs and
+    Bees were entirely exposed to the external air, which was not then
+    particularly warm. But a swarm was ready to go, so off they went.
+    For full particulars of this remarkable instance see "My Bee Book,"
+    second edition. To regulate, not to prevent swarming should be the
+    Bee-master's aim. More of this hereafter. I here give, by the
+    kindness of Mr. Alfred Neighbour, illustrations of the sort of hive
+    by which alone this can be accomplished, viz., the Bar Frame hive.
+    Originally of German invention, it, with various modifications, has
+    been widely adopted both on the Continent and in America; and every
+    Bee-master in England who claims the title of scientific, would do
+    well to supply himself at once. Each honey comb, it will be seen,
+    is built in a separate bar frame like a picture. They are ranged
+    to the number of 9, 11, or 13, in a strong box, and each is both
+    moveable and interchangeable with those of any other hive. Swarming
+    may be checked in any particular stock by cutting out the Queen
+    Cells. The great production of drones can be regulated by limiting
+    the amount of drone cell in any hive, and altogether prevented by
+    removing it all from a stock hive, about the purity of whose strain
+    there is the least doubt; whilst again, it may be encouraged in a
+    pure blooded stock hive, by inserting at the proper time an
+    additional bar containing drone comb. Any man handy with tools may
+    make them for himself at the cost of the materials, and they will
+    last a lifetime. I can supply my friends with as many as they
+    require at half a guinea, for which they pay double or treble in
+    the shops; whilst those who think nothing can be good except it is
+    high-priced, and do not like the trouble of making their own hives,
+    may go to any cost they like. The preceding woodcut represents a
+    hive on this principle, but with certain modifications, which may
+    be obtained of Mr. Neighbour, 149, Regent-street, and will suit the
+    class of Bee keepers last mentioned. Mr. Neighbour has, I may
+    mention, made arrangements for supplying Ligurian Queens of the
+    greatest purity.
+
+    [Illustration]
+
+    [Illustration]
+
+    [Illustration]
+
+
+  "A DANCING BEAR BY TRADE WAS HE,
+  "AND HONEY LOVED EXCEEDINGLY."--_Page 35._
+
+    This "Bar" story is an addition to, and improvement on, one which I
+    recollect to have read in some American publication. A man who had
+    dropped into a hollow tree is hoisted up by the same "living
+    ladder." He, if I remember rightly, grasped the hinders of the Bear
+    with one hand, and with the other prodded him with his Bowie knife,
+    so as to change his descending into an ascending motion.
+
+
+  HONEY CAKES.--The French use the word _Gateaux_. I wish the name
+    "Honey Cakes" were universally adopted by Bee-masters. It would
+    supply a meaning which the word "comb" does not at all. A honey
+    comb may be as dry as dust, whilst the "honey cake" places before
+    the eyes of the imagination a full comb well sealed over, with here
+    and there a drop of clear honey oozing out, as a sample of the
+    store within. Perfectly sealed honey cakes may be kept without
+    deterioration through the winter, by wrapping them up separately in
+    clean writing paper, and then packing them away in a tin, each cake
+    being placed as it stood in the hive. If Bar-Frame Hives are used,
+    the cakes should not be cut away from the frame till wanted; they
+    should be stored away in some close box, fitted to receive them.
+
+
+  "AND COVER HIM FROM TOP TO TOE."--_Page 43._--Bee literature contains
+    many instances of persons having been completely enveloped in a
+    swarm of Bees, who by remaining perfectly still did not receive a
+    single sting. Old Thorley, in his [Greek: Melissologia] tells the
+    story of his maid-servant being so covered in a manner very quaint
+    and charming. Perfect quiet under these circumstances is essential
+    to, and will secure, safety; whilst any thing which can enrage
+    20,000 soldiers, armed with a poisoned dart, may lead to fatal
+    results. Since I wrote the above, a story has appeared in the
+    newspapers, and is, I fear a true one, as names, dates and places
+    are given, of a sting having been fatal to a lady accustomed to
+    the management of bees. Any person who has this idiosyncrasy had
+    better give bees a wide berth.
+
+
+  "I DESKIVER."--_Page 44._--There was evidently a taste of Milesian
+    blood in this learned doctor. 'Tis fortunate that it was so, for
+    "discover" and "liver" would not rhyme.
+
+
+  "BREKEKEKEX, COAX, COAX,
+  "COAX, COAX, BREKEKEKEX."--_Page 46._
+
+    Is the refrain of the well-known chorus in the Frogs of
+    Aristophanes. Any one with an accurate ear, who has been so happy
+    as to assist at a chorus of Bull Frogs in full song in the sweet
+    spring tide, sacred to love and melody, must have felt how
+    accurately the great Comic Poet noted down their song. I do not
+    believe that in the two thousand years which have elapsed since
+    that time there has been a single note altered in their love ditty.
+    I have never been in Greece, and so cannot testify to the musical
+    powers of the Frogs of Boeotia; but I have had that pleasure both
+    in Spain and in the neighbourhood of Constantinople: in both
+    instances under very favourable circumstances, which I will relate.
+    In June, 1855, during the Crimean war, I was at Constantinople, the
+    guest of Lord Napier, then Chief Secretary to the British Embassy
+    in that city. He was residing at that lovely place, Therapia, the
+    summer retreat of our Ambassador and his suite. I had pitched my
+    little tent in a grass meadow, close to Lord Napier's snug house.
+    His hospitality by day was unbounded, but straitened as he was for
+    room by night, he was not sorry to entertain a guest who delighted
+    in camping out, and brought with him the means of doing so. Not
+    fifty yards from my tent was a dark stagnant pool, overshadowed by
+    trees, and every night and all night long the Bull frogs, from
+    their reedy habitations, sang "Brekekekex, Coax, Coax," whilst
+    above the water, and in and out of the dark shadows of the trees,
+    the fire flies flickered about in their ever varying gambols. It
+    was as though Taglioni, resplendent with Jewels, had been dancing
+    her very best to the strains of a Scotch bag-pipe. Again, I was in
+    the noble town of Seville at Easter, 1867, twelve years later,
+    during which time I had been hard at work in England, and "no
+    holiday had seen," so by that time I needed one. Not a hundred
+    yards from the glorious Cathedral, behind the Alcazar, the old
+    Palace of the Moors, is a large orange garden, and in the midst of
+    it a square tank, of Moorish work, used for irrigation. The garden
+    was tenanted by a widow woman who owned a dozen or so magnificent
+    stall-fed milch cows, and thither I resorted early every morning,
+    after visiting the Cathedral, for the sake of a glass of new milk,
+    and a lesson in Spanish from her two little daughters aged
+    respectively nine and ten, Incarnacion (the last c pronounced th)
+    and Salud. Commend me to two chattering little girls, when their
+    shyness has once worn off, as the best teachers of a new language.
+    One glorious morning I was sitting on the edge of the aforesaid
+    tank, inhaling the delicious perfume of the orange blossoms, when a
+    Frog struck up his "Brekekekex, Coax Coax" from the still water,
+    and at the same time the air was resonant with the sweet song of
+    the Nightingale. I pride myself on knowing somewhat of the
+    languages of Birds, Beasts, and (Fishes? No! they are mutum pecus,
+    but let us say) Bull Frogs so I listened attentively, and found the
+    Nightingale and Bull Frog, were each of them serenading his own
+    wife, arboreal, and aquatic. Each wife thought her husband the very
+    best singer in the world: that not a note of his song could be
+    altered for the better; and both Nightingale and Bull Frog thought
+    the other singer a bore. I noted down the whole of this musical
+    contest at the time. It is quite in the way of one of Virgil's
+    Amoeboean Bucolics. Not Corydon and Thyrsis, but Batrachos and
+    Philomela were contending for the prize. It is too long to insert
+    here, but may be had of my publishers, under the title of "Bull
+    Frog and Nightingale;" an Apologue, price 6d. But the sum of the
+    whole matter is this: I do not believe, "pace Darwinii nostri
+    dicatur," that natural selection, and conjugal preference has had
+    the effect of altering or improving the Nightingale's song in the
+    last two thousand years. It could not be louder or better, and I
+    trust may last my time unchanged, whilst on the evidence of
+    Aristophanes' chorus we know that Bull Frogs, then, as now, sang
+    "Brekekekex, Coax, Coax," _and that song only_.
+
+
+  THE HONEY POT.--_Page 47-52._--This Fytte, comical as it is in
+    itself, is particularly valuable as instructing the untravelled
+    Britisher in the peculiarities of a German bedstead; far too short
+    for all who have not by some Procrustoean process been reduced to
+    the normal height of five feet, no inches! the upper sheet sown to
+    the coverlid, with no possibility of tucking it in, and liable to
+    fall off the sleeper altogether. No blankets, but a mountain of
+    feather-bed piled above, which either stifles you in summer, or
+    rolling off, leaves you to freeze in the winter. Yet in such a bed
+    as this what wonderful positions Mr. Dull managed to assume under
+    the influence of fear. Imitate him, my gentle reader, if you are
+    still young and active, and then you will appreciate his
+    contortions.
+
+
+  "A HONEY THIEF, ILL MAY HE THRIVE."--_Page 55._--Every Bee keeper
+    will echo this wish. I know no sight more piteous than an apiary
+    the night after it has been plundered. Light Hives upset, and
+    lying, with the combs all broken, on the ground. The Bees crawling
+    about in wild confusion around their violated homes, lately so
+    neat, and now the very picture of desolation. In vain they attempt
+    to repair the damage which the spoiler's hand has created; whilst
+    the stands where the heavy stocks stood the evening before, are one
+    and all tenantless. Many devices to protect Hives from robbers have
+    been tried. Wooden boxes are tightly screwed to the bottom board
+    from below, whilst the bottom board itself is strongly bolted to
+    the stand. This will indeed protect a hive from anything but a
+    powerful crow bar. But the remedy is worse than the disease, as it
+    prevents your ever changing or cleaning the bottom board, and is,
+    in many ways, inconvenient. The best preservative I can think of is
+    to have a savage dog, savage to all but his master, with a strong
+    chain, not fastened to his kennel, but ending in an iron ring,
+    which can slide along a small pole placed horizontally about a foot
+    from the ground in front of the Hives. I have seen this mode of
+    defence adopted in Germany for the protection of the valuable Leech
+    ponds, which are there fattened for the market. It answers for the
+    defence of Leeches, and if so, why not for Bees.
+
+
+  "MANY A NOSE, UPTURNED, WAS SNORING IN REPOSE."--_Page 66._--My
+    readers will doubtless remember, as I confess to have done when
+    penning the above line, the opening of Southey's Thalaba, and the
+    inimitable parody thereof in the Rejected Addresses. When a thing
+    has been done excellently well, it is folly to again attempt the
+    same with a certainty of failure before our eyes. We verse makers
+    do not steal from each other; we are all one brotherhood, and
+    _Corbies nae pike out corbies e'en_. But we convey--_conveys_ the
+    word, says glorious Will.
+
+
+  "AND BETWEEN THEM BORE,
+  "THE FELON TO THE PRISON DOOR."--_Page 66._
+
+    This mode of removing a captive would have suited that extinct
+    species of our protective force, that of the Dogberry and Verges
+    order, and may be recommended to our new police as more merciful,
+    and less grating to the feelings of a prisoner than the present
+    mode of "running a man in;" especially as they generally get hold
+    of the wrong person. A police sedan would enable the innocent
+    captive to conceal his features from the tail of little boys and
+    idle quidnuncs, specially if he were carried like our honey thief
+    head downwards.
+
+    The last Chapter is like the first, written in the style of the
+    Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's feast, and is, it seems to
+    me, no less admirable. If I pride myself on anything in this
+    translation it is on the concluding lines:
+
+        "The evening star went flicker--flick--
+        Over the bedroom candlestick;
+        And round its silver radiance shed
+        To light the sleepy moon to bed."
+
+
+  "I'VE DONE I DOFF MY RIDING GEAR,
+  "AND ORDER PEGASUS--HIS BEER."--_Page 72._
+
+    Baierische Bier is infinitely superior to any Hippocrene. But no
+    drink in the world can hold a candle to genuine "Wienische Bier,"
+    as it comes cool drawn from the cellar. The Romans knew not beer,
+    and so had to put up with "Falernian," or even the "vile
+    Coecubum." I say put up, for the wine that now goes by the name
+    of Falernian is detestable. I suppose, however, that two thousand
+    years ago it was far more carefully made, as I trust it may again
+    be in "Italia Unita." The Romans, knew not beer, but the Greeks had
+    tasted it, though brewed by the hands of barbarians. In Xenophon's
+    Retreat of the Ten Thousand we are told that they came upon a race
+    of people from whom they got
+
+        [Greek: Hek krithon methu.]
+
+    Let us then leave Pegasus to enjoy his drink of barley wine, though
+    like Baron Munchausen's famous steed, he hath not the wherewithal
+    to stow away his beer. My dear old Peggy, alluded to in the first
+    of this series of notes, and therefore the fittest subject for a
+    wind up, was, when hard worked, very fond of a quart of good ale,
+    with half a quartern loaf broken into it; she would drink up the
+    ale at a draught, then quickly munch the sop, and start with fresh
+    vigour for another ten-mile trot.
+
+
+
+
+CORRIGENDA.
+
+
+The reader is asked to excuse the following errors, excusable--as
+for the sake of having its original wood blocks, the work, with the
+exception of the notes, was printed abroad.
+
+  Page 6, for _'ts_ read _t'is_.
+
+  Page 35 should be--
+
+        "But every sweet-toothed school-boy knows,
+        He can't eat honey with his toes."
+
+  Page 36, for _hinder's_ read _hinders_.
+
+  Page 70, for _Ap le Tree_ read _Apple Tree_.
+
+
+PHILLIPSON AND GOLDER, PRINTERS, CHESTER.
+
+
+
+
+
+End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Buzz a Buzz, by Wilhelm Busch
+
+*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUZZ A BUZZ ***
+
+***** This file should be named 38902.txt or 38902.zip *****
+This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
+        https://www.gutenberg.org/3/8/9/0/38902/
+
+Produced by David Edwards and the Online Distributed
+Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was
+produced from images generously made available by The
+Internet Archive)
+
+
+Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
+will be renamed.
+
+Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
+one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
+(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
+permission and without paying copyright royalties.  Special rules,
+set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
+copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to
+protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark.  Project
+Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
+charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission.  If you
+do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the
+rules is very easy.  You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose
+such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and
+research.  They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do
+practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks.  Redistribution is
+subject to the trademark license, especially commercial
+redistribution.
+
+
+
+*** START: FULL LICENSE ***
+
+THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
+PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK
+
+To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free
+distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work
+(or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project
+Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project
+Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at
+https://gutenberg.org/license).
+
+
+Section 1.  General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic works
+
+1.A.  By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to
+and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property
+(trademark/copyright) agreement.  If you do not agree to abide by all
+the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy
+all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession.
+If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the
+terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or
+entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8.
+
+1.B.  "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark.  It may only be
+used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who
+agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement.  There are a few
+things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works
+even without complying with the full terms of this agreement.  See
+paragraph 1.C below.  There are a lot of things you can do with Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement
+and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works.  See paragraph 1.E below.
+
+1.C.  The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation"
+or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic works.  Nearly all the individual works in the
+collection are in the public domain in the United States.  If an
+individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are
+located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from
+copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative
+works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg
+are removed.  Of course, we hope that you will support the Project
+Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by
+freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of
+this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with
+the work.  You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by
+keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project
+Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others.
+
+1.D.  The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern
+what you can do with this work.  Copyright laws in most countries are in
+a constant state of change.  If you are outside the United States, check
+the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement
+before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or
+creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project
+Gutenberg-tm work.  The Foundation makes no representations concerning
+the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United
+States.
+
+1.E.  Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg:
+
+1.E.1.  The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate
+access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently
+whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the
+phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project
+Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed,
+copied or distributed:
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+1.E.2.  If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived
+from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is
+posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied
+and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees
+or charges.  If you are redistributing or providing access to a work
+with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the
+work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1
+through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the
+Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or
+1.E.9.
+
+1.E.3.  If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted
+with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution
+must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional
+terms imposed by the copyright holder.  Additional terms will be linked
+to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the
+permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work.
+
+1.E.4.  Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this
+work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm.
+
+1.E.5.  Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
+electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
+prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with
+active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project
+Gutenberg-tm License.
+
+1.E.6.  You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary,
+compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any
+word processing or hypertext form.  However, if you provide access to or
+distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than
+"Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version
+posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.org),
+you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a
+copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon
+request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other
+form.  Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1.
+
+1.E.7.  Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying,
+performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works
+unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9.
+
+1.E.8.  You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing
+access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided
+that
+
+- You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from
+     the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method
+     you already use to calculate your applicable taxes.  The fee is
+     owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
+     has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
+     Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation.  Royalty payments
+     must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you
+     prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax
+     returns.  Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and
+     sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the
+     address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to
+     the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation."
+
+- You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies
+     you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he
+     does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm
+     License.  You must require such a user to return or
+     destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium
+     and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of
+     Project Gutenberg-tm works.
+
+- You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any
+     money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the
+     electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days
+     of receipt of the work.
+
+- You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free
+     distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.
+
+1.E.9.  If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm
+electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set
+forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from
+both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael
+Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark.  Contact the
+Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below.
+
+1.F.
+
+1.F.1.  Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable
+effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread
+public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm
+collection.  Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain
+"Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or
+corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual
+property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a
+computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by
+your equipment.
+
+1.F.2.  LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right
+of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project
+Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project
+Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project
+Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all
+liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal
+fees.  YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT
+LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE
+PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3.  YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE
+TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE
+LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR
+INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
+DAMAGE.
+
+1.F.3.  LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a
+defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can
+receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a
+written explanation to the person you received the work from.  If you
+received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with
+your written explanation.  The person or entity that provided you with
+the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a
+refund.  If you received the work electronically, the person or entity
+providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to
+receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund.  If the second copy
+is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further
+opportunities to fix the problem.
+
+1.F.4.  Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth
+in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER
+WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
+WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE.
+
+1.F.5.  Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
+warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages.
+If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the
+law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be
+interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by
+the applicable state law.  The invalidity or unenforceability of any
+provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions.
+
+1.F.6.  INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the
+trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone
+providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance
+with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production,
+promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works,
+harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees,
+that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do
+or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm
+work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any
+Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause.
+
+
+Section  2.  Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of
+electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers
+including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers.  It exists
+because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from
+people in all walks of life.
+
+Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the
+assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's
+goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will
+remain freely available for generations to come.  In 2001, the Project
+Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure
+and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations.
+To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
+and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4
+and the Foundation web page at https://www.pglaf.org.
+
+
+Section 3.  Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
+Foundation
+
+The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit
+501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the
+state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal
+Revenue Service.  The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification
+number is 64-6221541.  Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at
+https://pglaf.org/fundraising.  Contributions to the Project Gutenberg
+Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent
+permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws.
+
+The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S.
+Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered
+throughout numerous locations.  Its business office is located at
+809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email
+business@pglaf.org.  Email contact links and up to date contact
+information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official
+page at https://pglaf.org
+
+For additional contact information:
+     Dr. Gregory B. Newby
+     Chief Executive and Director
+     gbnewby@pglaf.org
+
+
+Section 4.  Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg
+Literary Archive Foundation
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide
+spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of
+increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be
+freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest
+array of equipment including outdated equipment.  Many small donations
+($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt
+status with the IRS.
+
+The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating
+charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United
+States.  Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a
+considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up
+with these requirements.  We do not solicit donations in locations
+where we have not received written confirmation of compliance.  To
+SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any
+particular state visit https://pglaf.org
+
+While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we
+have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition
+against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who
+approach us with offers to donate.
+
+International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
+any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from
+outside the United States.  U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff.
+
+Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation
+methods and addresses.  Donations are accepted in a number of other
+ways including including checks, online payments and credit card
+donations.  To donate, please visit: https://pglaf.org/donate
+
+
+Section 5.  General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic
+works.
+
+Professor Michael S. Hart was the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm
+concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared
+with anyone.  For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project
+Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support.
+
+
+Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed
+editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S.
+unless a copyright notice is included.  Thus, we do not necessarily
+keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition.
+
+
+Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility:
+
+     https://www.gutenberg.org
+
+This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm,
+including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary
+Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to
+subscribe to our email newsletter to hear about new eBooks.