tiny baskets filled with 

 "bread" for the hungry 

 bee-babes in the hive. 

 And a most singular diet 

 it is that is served to those 

 young epicures ! 



Let us catch this busy 

 bee as it hums by 

 on its way to the % 

 hive. The little 

 brush of hairs on 

 each of its hind 

 legs is packed solid with 

 the sticky mass of yellow pow- 

 der, and a singular record it is 

 of the life of the little insect that 

 carries it ! If we dislodge even the 

 smallest fragment of it, and mois- 

 ten it in a drop of water upon the 

 glass of our pocket- microscope, 

 what an assortment of curious 

 vegetables! Why, the grocer's or 



