[Illustration: THE BEAR AND THE BEE HIVES.]
A Bear, climbing over the fence into a place where Bees were kept, began
to plunder the Hives, and rob them of their honey. But the Bees, to
revenge the injury, attacked him in a whole swarm together; and, though
they were not able to pierce his rugged hide, yet, with their little
stings, they so annoyed his eyes and nostrils, that, unable to endure
the smarting pain, with impatience he tore the skin over his ears with
his own claws, and suffered ample punishment for the injury he did the
Bees in breaking open their waxen cells.