94 THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE  cHaP. 
tance at once; but if they are intended to 
take a long flight, they are trained to do so 
by stages. 
Darwin suggested that it would be inter- 
esting to test the case by taking animals in 
a close box, and then whirlmg them round 
rapidly before letting them out. This is in 
fact done with cats in some parts of France, 
when the family migrates, and is considered 
the only way of preventing the cat from re- 
turning to the old home. Fabre has tried 
the same thing with some wild Bees (Chali- 
codoma). He took some, marked them on 
the back with a spot of white, and put them 
into a bag. He then carried them a quarter 
of a mile, stopping at a point where an old 
cross stands by the wayside, and whirled the 
bag rapidly round his head. While he was 
doing so a good woman came by, who seemed 
not a little surprised to find the Professor sol- 
emnly whirling a black bag round his head 
in front of the cross; and, he fears, suspected 
him of Satanic practices. He then carried 
his Bees a mile and a half in the opposite 
direction and let them go. Three out of 
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