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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



September, 1917 



There ouas a lit fie bee 



She had a little task. 

 So she fie (A/ straight out to f/ie field, 

 field, field, 

 ^he sucked the nectar up 

 Trom every flo(A)er cup, 

 fli/ing back to the hive 

 with its yie/d, i/kld, yield. 



She put it in a cell to let it ripen well 



^nd she bade her comrades tofsn, fan, fan. 



7hen ovhen the comb ia?35 done^ 

 . ^^l^ifh celld filled ever^ one, / 



ihat honey was stolen by a man, man, man J. 



