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 The Swarming Ever 



E found him at once. "What 

 does this mean?" I cried. 



1 ' It means, ' ' said he, ' ' that, 

 late as the season is, the 

 swarming fever has seized 

 the colony." 



"Why?" we cried. 



"Well, we have so much honey and there is so 

 much in the field and the colony so strong, it can 

 easily spare a force of pioneers to begin a new colony. 

 Here is the working out of destiny controlling the very 

 life of the bee." 



Crip spoke enthusiastically, and both Buzz-Buzz 

 and I were fascinated by his story. 



The first thing I knew I, also, was seized with the 

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