The Busy Bee

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• Front cover
  June 1878: Flowers
• Notice
  Notice. The Editor hopes to publish the next number of this interesting magazine on the first of October; she therefore requests her readers to send in their contributions by the tenth of September. The subject proposed for the next number will be - "Recreations" The manuscripts to be written legibly on note paper. Each person is requested to send on the magazine after two days, or at the most, in any special case four days.
  June 1878: Flowers
• Title page
  June 1878: Flowers
• Preface
  Editor
  Preface. [Comment:] What a jolly good margin we have on the next page! The Editor has much pleasure in producing the summer number of the Busy Bee, with its most appropriate subject of "flowers", and though some of the bees are still silent, and some sent in their contributions after the day appointed she hopes they will be more punctual next time. The Editor would call her reader's attention to the fact that this book is illustrated; may the example of these few skilful artists be followed by others next time. She also requests her readers not to keep the magazine too long, as the last number was sent off on the first of April, and did not reach the Editor again till the twenty-second of May, and if it is kept too long by some, the later members become impatient. The manuscripts this time are not arranged in any particular order. The spaces between each paper are meant for the readers' comments, but each person is requested not to take up more than the space allotted to him, and no person is obliged to make comments. You are requested to write them in ink. Editor June 14
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• Contents
  Editor
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• Spring Flowers
  Ignotus
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• The Poet
  Sam
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• Hocus-Pocus
  Cyril K.S.
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• Francesca
  Effigy
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• Birthday Flowers
  Dumbledore
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• How a thief was caught! A true story.
  Midge
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• He and She
  Cyril K.S.
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• Friar. or a Fr's Assistant
  Rag
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• The candle and the moths
  Mocking Bird
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• Lost among the flowers
  Fiddledum
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• H.A.Y.
  Midge
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• An amusing trick
  Aurora
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• A tale of a Frenchman
  Aurora
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• Children and flowers
  M.S.
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• Circulation list
  Editor
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• Notice
  Editor
  P.S. Will the contributors be so good as to put their sheets of paper, when they have more than one, inside one another, as Mitch has so carefully done in his thief-catching story, as it makes it much easier to bind, and single sheets are most difficult to manage. - N.B. This magazine is sent off on the 16th of June. Will the contributors please forward the magazine in the same bag in which it is sent off
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• Back cover
  June 1878: Flowers