

WO days later the Master came 

 and opened the door of the cage, 

 and the new Queen he had brought 

 walked boldly out on the combs, 

 to be wildly acclaimed, " Mother!" 

 The hostility which had been dis- 

 played toward her had totally disappeared, and in 

 its place had come affection. The death of the im- 

 postor had wrought a profound revolution, and every- 

 where my poor Crip was proclaimed a hero. 



Within the space of an hour every egg and every 

 young bee which the impostor had left was dragged 

 out and cast to the ants; and almost at once the new 

 Queen began to deposit eggs of her kind, and the hymn 

 of rejoicing that welled up in that hive of many calami- 

 ties cannot well be imagined. I think that I more than 

 any other was moved to the bottom of my being. 



It is not possible for me to express the loneliness 

 which came over me at thought of Crip's death. We 

 had been such dear companions, and he had been so 

 kind and wise. 



When another day had dawned and the sun had suf- 

 ficiently warmed the air, I went into the fields with the 



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