Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Mr. Joseph Adams, of Eden, Lamoille, County, Vermont, [a town which he helped settle when a youth, and he is now over seventy years old,] writes us that “I have kept bees nearly forty years, and I have stood and watched the King-bird in a cold misty day, and have seen them sit on my apple trees, fly down and catch my bees in their beak, hold them till dead, then swallow them. I shot, one a few days ago, dissected it and found a number of bees in its stomach, which I can prove by good witnesses.