THE MAEYEL OF INSECT LIFE. 

 CHAPTER IV. 



HONEY BEES THE PRINCIPLE OF ORDER. 



"TvEBOBAH, "She who speaketh," is the Hebrew name 

 *J of the Honey Bee, and many-tongued, she speaks 

 many things, preaching sermons without words to those 

 who will hear. 



It must be understood that I do not intend to treat of 

 bee-keeping, or of the artificially modified life of the 

 domesticated insect. ': > \ 



In the first place, the subject could not be com- 

 prised within my present limits; and in the next, 

 even the proverbial disagreement of doctors is concord 

 itself when compared with strife among bee-masters, who 

 only seem to agree upon one point, namely that all out- 



