Mime-Version: |
1.0 |
Content-Type: |
text/plain; charset=us-ascii |
Date: |
Mon, 3 Dec 2007 05:18:04 GMT |
Content-Disposition: |
inline |
Reply-To: |
|
Subject: |
|
From: |
|
Content-Transfer-Encoding: |
8bit |
Sender: |
|
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
>>I cannot locate the reference by James Fenimore Cooper pertaining to bees ‘preceding the settlers' or similar accounts thereof associated with bees by J. F. Cooper. Please send more info,
I would like to acquire the reference.
Here you are. Amazingly, The Prairie is available online at www.bibliomania.com/0/0/23/51/frameset.html You can search there for 'bee' and on page 3 in chapter 3 read how the young bee hunter says:
'You think a tree is wanting for a swarm to settle in! But I know differently; and so I have stretched out a few hundred miles farther west than common, to taste your honey. And, now, I have bated your curiosity, stranger, you will just move aisde, while I tell the remainder of my story to this young woman.'
The old trapper was certainly very surprised to come across a bee hunter so far away from the settlements. I believe The Prairie takes place west of the Mississippi.
I was a real pleasure to re-read just now some of JF Cooper's work in English! [I read him in Polish when I was 13 or 14 years old...] I'll have to re-read the entire trilogy when I have some spare time...
Waldemar
******************************************************
* Full guidelines for BEE-L posting are at: *
* http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/guidelines.htm *
******************************************************
|
|
|