NATURE'S CRAFTSMEN 



SECTION OF A WILD-BEE-TREE WITH HONEYCOMB CLINGING TO 

 ■ THE INTERIOR 



From a specimen in American Museum of Natural History 



them a "bee-tree" was a fair godsend. Like the bee, 

 man has always been a searcher after sweets. Witness 

 the Bible story of Jonathan, the princely friend of Da- 

 vid, who was tempted to disobey orders by the wild- 

 bee honey in the clefts of the rocks. Indeed, one might 

 go further back to the wild bee's nest that Samson 

 found in a lion's skeleton. The race of wild honey 

 bees has by no means passed away, although bee-trees 

 are rare finds now save in our most unsettled parts. 



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