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descending head first. Sometimes she goes quite 

 down — sometimes only half-way, or perhaps there is 

 a mere pretence at descending, and she only stoops 

 her head in the opening, but at anyrate this quite 

 useless action — for the honey is already disgorged — 

 invariably precedes the entrance backward to deposit 

 pollen. It is almost the movement of a machine, 

 not a wheel of which moves till the main one begins 

 to turn. 



