Tag Archive | Gilbert White
Marginalia, no.336
Originally posted on The New Psalmanazar:
We had in this village more than twenty years ago an idiot-boy, whom I well remember, who, from a child, shewed a strong propensity to bees; they were his food, his amusement, his sole object. …[He] had no apprehension from their stings but would seize them nudis manibus, and…