The Busy Bee

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• Front cover
  July 1879: Birds
• Notice
  Editor
  Notice... All contributions for the next number (October) must be sent in by the 10th of September. The subject will be Perseverance. The sheets must be placed one inside another, otherwise the manuscript will be returned to the author to be rewritten. [Comment:] * (!!!) This book is to be kept three days only, and every reader must send a post-card to the editor to say when they received it, when forwarded it, and to whom. Postage... 4d [Comment:] * Ah Diana! are you not rash? What if there was a strike of authors where would the Busy Bee be then? Effigy. [Comment:] Where indeed! an editor paying 5GS? a page could not be more peremptory. Dumbledore
  July 1879: Birds
• Endsheet
  July 1879: Birds
• Title page
  Editor
  July 1879: Birds
• Subscription notice
  Editor
  July 1879: Birds
• Preface
  Editor
  Preface. The editor regrets that by reason of her unexpected absence from home the Busy Bee is one day late in appearing; she hopes therefore that none of the readers will keep it too long: three days only is the time allowed for reading it, and they must not exceed that time. The successful candidate for the weather poem prize is Fiddledum, author of "Ringing the changes;" the money (13"4) will be given to the House of Rest for Convalescents near ??. A punctuality prize will be given every year (beginning July '79) for the member(s) who sends most contributions for the magazine: (2) who never keeps it too long! (3) who sends the post-card as requested, to the editor to say when he receives and forwards the Busy Bee; (4) who sends his contributions most punctually. Every member is therefore expected to pay a subscription of one penny per year, which is to be inserted in the form of a stamp in the envelope for the purpose at the [crossed out: end] beginning of the magazine. Any reader of this book is allowed to write criticisms and remarks &c, in the spaces for that purpose, but they must be written in ink. A post-card is to be sent to the Editor when the Busy Bee is forwarded.
  July 1879: Birds
• To the Stars
  July 1879: Birds
• Contents
  July 1879: Birds
• What is a bird?
  Ignotus
  July 1879: Birds
• The Nightingale
  Piggy
  July 1879: Birds
• Proverb Stories
  Fiddledum
  July 1879: Birds
• The Lay of the Inspector (A Parody)
  Solitary Wasp
  July 1879: Birds
• The Cage Bird's Complaint
  Ignotus
  July 1879: Birds
• In the Schools (after Commem.)
  Cobweb
  July 1879: Birds
• Uriconium, or, the Buried City
  M.S.
  July 1879: Birds
• The Monarch's Court
  Cyril K.S.
  July 1879: Birds
• Bees
  Two Fools
  July 1879: Birds
• A Dream
  Ignotus
  July 1879: Birds
• The Skylark
  July 1879: Birds
• Basil's Bird
  Diana
  July 1879: Birds
• Poems on the Weather
  Editor
  July 1879: Birds
• Preface
  Editor
  Preface _ _ The editor in proposing that there should be a prize given in this number of the Beehive or Busy Bee hoped that it would add to the interest of the Magazine. All members are requested to distribute six votes among the poem or poems they like best, or considered most worthy of the prize. Of the twelve poems, five relate distinctly to the Weather in general, namely "The Weather," "To the Clerk of the Weather," the "Parson and the Farmer," "Ringing the Changes," and "Grumbles." "Cloud and Sunshine," and "The Seasons," are more about the Weather connected with the different seasons of the year; "May-day" gives the weather of one particular first of May, "Winter" the weather of last winter; "A voice in the Wind" has very little to do with the weather at all, and "To the Swallow" less. "The God of the Weather gives a very beautiful description of a storm, but it also has little to do with the weather in general. All the poems have been copied out to prevent partiality in the voting. Six votes are allowed because the Editor thought the bees would find it easier to distribute six than one. It will be announced, if possible, in the next number who is the successful competitor. The sum promised for the prize is 14/one corrected to 13/7 but the editor has as yet only received 13/7 it is hoped the rest will shortly arrive There are spaces after each poem for critical remarks upon it and there are several pages at the end for suggestions and general remarks. The subscription list is as follows:
  July 1879: Birds
• The Weather
  Wren
  July 1879: Birds
• To the Clerk of the Weather
  Effigy
  July 1879: Birds