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 ??.
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