If the salt was dear and scarce, sugar was unknown except t… - Augustus Jessopp

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If the salt was dear and scarce, sugar was unknown except to the very rich. The poor man had little to sweeten his lot. The bees gave him honey; and long after the time I am dealing with, people left not only their hives to their children by will, but actually bequeathed a summer flight of bees to their friends; while the hive was claimed by one, the next swarm would become the property of another.

Augustus Jessopp

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Augustus Jessopp (20 December 1823 – 12 February 1914) was an English cleric of the Anglican Church, an essayist, and a local historian of Norfolk, East Anglia.

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