 | Arthur Benoni Evans - 1881 - 344 ページ
...ordinary modern version is ' Shake a Leicestershire man by the shoulders,' &c. Vide Bean-belly. BEES. " A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay : A...spoon : A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly." Ray, p. 45, omits the third and fourth lines. is baid to allude to an Elizabethan militia-officer,... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1881 - 96 ページ
...health. It is far better to be strong than to be rich. SWARMS OF BEES. swarm (=sworm) worth (=ivurih). A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay. A swarm cf bees in June Is worth a silver spoon. WHITE SWANS AND BLACK. swan (=swbn) halt (=holt) watch (=wbch)... | |
 | 1882 - 376 ページ
...your corn in May, and you'll come weeping away, Look at the same in June, and you'll whistle a tune." "A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay, A swarm in July is not worth a fly." " When the wind's in the east, it's neither good for man nor beast." "... | |
 | William Smith (F.S.A.S.) - 1882 - 386 ページ
...corn in May, and you'll come weeping away, Look at the same in June, and you'll whistle a tune." " A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay, A swarm in July is not worth a fly." " When the wind's in the east, it's neither good for man nor beast. "... | |
 | 1920 - 658 ページ
...etc." It is well to take note of these things. There is some wisdom in many of these old sayings. " A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay "; "...of bees in June is worth a silver spoon*'; "A swarm in July is hardly worth a fly." Someone asked me the other day if a May swarm wan worth a load of hay,... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1885 - 492 ページ
...Maddeford, of Torda, Sourton, age about 57. WHM This seems to be a variation of the well-known rhyme — " A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay. A swarm...June Is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July Isn't worth a fly." GD " Friday an' the wick (week) A proverb which, my landlady remarked, did not... | |
 | Havilah Babcock - 1985 - 258 ページ
...de pan ready; den . . ." "Then what?" I prompted. "Den you sends fer mel" I did. Hunting Bee-Trees "A swarm of bees in May, Is worth a load of hay. A...spoon. A swarm of bees in July, Is not worth a fly." This time-honored dictum was as much a part of my childhood legacy as the precious rigmarole about... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 ページ
...OAEL-1; OBEV; OxBB; OxBS; PoEL-1; PoE; PPP; Prim; RB; TrGrPo; UnPo; WeW A Swarm of bees in May 235 lf, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to (1. 1 -6) FaBoBe; OxNR Sweet Betsey from Pike 236 Did you ever hear tell of Sweet Betsy from Pike.... | |
 | Astra Cielo - 1996 - 244 ページ
...oval teeth three-sided grow; They longer get, project before, Till twenty, when we know no more. Bees A swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm...spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. The Cuckoo May—sings all the day; June—changes his tune; July—prepares to fly; August—go he... | |
 | M. Williamson - 1996 - 268 ページ
...Smaller and her workers behind. Temperate swarms are more successful the earlier they form in summer - 'a swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay . . .' (Opie and Opie, 1955), while tropical bees can swarm at any time. Absconding is when all the... | |
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A SWARM of bees in May Is worth a load of hay; A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon; A swarm of bees in July Is not worth a fly. 
