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BEES. 



cavitj. The hungry Bee, with the point of 

 its trunk, sucks the honey from the other's 

 mouth. When not stopped on the road, the 

 Bee proceeds to the hive, and in the same 

 manner offers its honey to those who are at 

 work, as if it meant to prevent the necessity 

 of quitting their labour in order to go in quest 

 of food. In bad weather, the Bees feed on 

 the honey laid up in open cells ; but they 

 never touch their reservoirs while their com- 

 panions are enabled to supply them with fresh 

 honey from the fields. But the mouths of 

 those cells which are destined for preserving 

 honey during the winter, they always cover 

 with a lid, or thin plate of wax. 



