A Lively Bee Hunt 2 1 1 



and have one eye look down, and the other 

 up. If you keep your eyes on the bee, you 

 go into a hole, and if you look down you lose 

 your bee. It's real inconsiderate of bees not 

 to travel the highways when they start for 

 home. 



" Now we will follow along in the direction 

 that this bee took for thirty or forty rods, and 

 then we will let out another and that one will 

 continue the trail for us. You see it is a kind 

 of relay race." 



When we let out the second bee I let Ben 

 lead off in the chase after it, while I followed 

 carefully behind. 



As much as I loved Ben I was rather in 

 hopes that he would fall into a ditch, or trip 

 on a stick so that I could laugh, but he did 

 not. 



I do not know how he managed it, but he 

 always seemed to find the smooth places. 



This time we followed the bee much farther 

 than we did the first, but it was finally 

 lost. 



" There isn't much use of you and me try- 



