James Fenimore Cooper

Name: The Oak Openings — Introduction by Susan Fenimore Cooper
Author: James Fenimore Cooper

The Oak Openings — Introduction by Susan Fenimore Cooper

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“The Oak Openings — Introduction by Susan Fenimore Cooper”, is a work by James Fenimore Cooper. It explores elements such as bees, swarm and honey.

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James Fenimore Cooper, The Oak Openings — Introduction by Susan Fenimore Cooper

“ In twelve different works of the imagination, from the same pen, the savages had held positions more or less prominent — among scenes of adventurous life in the Otsego hills, on the shores of the Horican, roaming over the far western prairies, on the waters of Lake Ontario, among the forests of New York, and now among the oak groves of Michigan. ”

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James Fenimore Cooper, The Oak Openings — Introduction by Susan Fenimore Cooper

“ The good man then withdrew to a little distance, and seated himself on a stump, awaiting the result; it was not long before a line of communication was opened between the bee-company above, and the hive with its store of honey, and the flowering plants below; and when the sun set, the bees had of their own accord taken possession of their new abode; by moonlight they were rowed across the lake, and placed on the shelf in the farmer's garden, beside the mother swarm they had left a few days earlier on their adventurous journey to the Châlet. ”

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James Fenimore Cooper, The Oak Openings — Introduction by Susan Fenimore Cooper

“ Presently a stranger, with a tin pail in his hand, made his appearance, coming slowly up the winding road to the hill-top, where Mr. Cooper was engaged with his workmen. Approaching the party, he inquired if a large swarm of bees had not been seen somewhere in that direction; he had lost a fine swarm, which had left the hive early in the morning, several days before, and, after looking for them in vain for a while, he had just learned that a farmer's wife in his neighborhood had seen them cross the lake in the direction of the Châlet. No such swarm had been seen by the workmen at the Châlet ”

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James Fenimore Cooper, The Oak Openings — Introduction by Susan Fenimore Cooper

“ To get an idea of Prairie Round, the reader must imagine an oval plain of some five-and-twenty or thirty thousand acres in extent, of the most surprising fertility, without an eminence of any sort; almost without an inequality. There are a few small cavities, however, in which there are springs forming large pools of water that the cattle will drink. This plain, so far as we saw it, is now entirely fenced and cultivated. The fields are large — many containing eighty acres, and some one hundred and sixty; most of them being in wheat. ”

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James Fenimore Cooper, The Oak Openings — Introduction by Susan Fenimore Cooper

“ In this way, some dozen bees were successively captured from the clover, or daisies, or wood flowers, found in mingled growth about the hill-top, until, at length, the general direction taken by them all, when set at liberty, was discovered. This process of "lining the bees," or tracking them by an air-line to the natural hive, proved that the farmer had been correct; an old, half-charred oak stub, some forty feet in height, with a single limb near the top, had been their alighting place; once beneath the tree, the little creatures might be seen flying about the blighted bough above. ”

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James Fenimore Cooper, The Oak Openings — Introduction by Susan Fenimore Cooper

“ The farm was belted by wood on all sides, while a young grove skirted the cliffs, and on the height a number of tall scattered trees, some charred and lifeless, others still in full vigor, showed the remains of the original forest. The farmer from Highborough professed himself very knowing in the ways of bees ”

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James Fenimore Cooper, The Oak Openings — Introduction by Susan Fenimore Cooper

“ Learning this fact, the stranger began to look about him more closely, and, from the unusual number of honey-bees coming and going about the flowering plants on the hill, he became convinced that his swarm was lodged somewhere within reach. A search for the lost bees began ”

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