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A bear has overturned a beehive and is attacked by bees. Etching by J. Kirk after F.Barlow for a fable by Aesop.
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A bear has overturned a beehive and is attacked by bees. Etching by J. Kirk after F.Barlow for a fable by Aesop.

Aesop

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Lettering: The bear and the bee hives. F. Barlow delin. Ja.s Kirk fecit. 8. A bee's keen sting a bear did so enrage, that with the hives, a war he does engage:

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