THE GREAT FREE SCHOOL. 311 and, what is better, there is nothing to pay to the schoolmaster, except thanks to Almighty God, who has built this grandest of all national schools, one in which all people of all nations may learn. Christ himself, the Creator of all we see, is the Teacher and they only will learn aright the lessons which these things teach us about the highest God, who have thankfully obeyed the call which He gives, to learn of Him better things than the art of Bee-keeping. Though the book of nature be all very good, I have tried to show there is a better; but we cannot rightly understand it, unless we have the spirit of the Bible in our hearts. The good lessons, which I hope you, as good scholars, will learn by this, I have marked in large letters; they are PATIENCE, PERSEVERANCE, INDUSTRY, TEACHABLENESS, LOVE TO THE QUEEN, LOVE FOR THE LITTLE ONES, DUTY TO PARENTS, and many others which you may hunt out for yourselves. I shall now end my second Letter as I did my first :— "I have now said my say. Much good may do you, which I am sure it will, if it you give it a fair trial. READ IT OFTEN ; KEEP IT SAFE; LEND IT TO YOUR NEIGHBOURS WHO DO NOT KEEP BEES; TALK IT OVER WITH THOSE WHO DO; LEARN FROM THE BEE TO WORK HARD AND WASTE NOTHING. REMEMBER, NOTHING WORTH DOING CAN BE DONE IN publishing my observations on Bees, I shall not pretend to have made them with mine own eyes. I became blind in my early youth, by a train of unfortunate accidents; but I loved the sciences, and when I lost the organ of sight, I lost not my taste for them. I caused the best works on Physics and Natural History to be read to me. I had for reader a servant (Francis Burnens, born in the Pays-de-Vaud,) who took extraordinary interest in all that he read to me. I soon judged, by his observations on what he read, and by the conclusions which he drew from them, that he understood them as well as I, and that he |