14 SEPTEMBER 1951, Page 13

A Bee's Example

My autumn occupation is to watch A bumble-bee rifling a bramble flower. The golden process looks as though an hour Will not suffice, so leisurely the despatch With which the ruffian works. First he will snatch

A lode of precious dust, then pause to lower His panniers, till they touch the lilosiom's floor And he is free to sleep, or count his catch.

Here is the right philosophy of work

I wish the masters, and the men as well, Would take example from this fellow's mode, Neither to strain the muscles, nor to shirk. Maybe economists would learn to spell A different future as man's destined road!

RICHARD CHURCH.