WILDWOOD WAYS 



work and another's by the difference in 

 shade. 



Thus the work went on during the 

 summer, more cells being added to the 

 existing combs, new combs being hung 

 below, and always the surrounding en- 

 velope being cut away and replaced to ac- 

 commodate the internal growth. Late 

 August saw the last additions made. 

 The hive then roared with life. The sum- 

 mer had been a good one and food was 

 plentiful. Under the bounty of fierce 

 summer heat and ample food the workers 

 had developed a new faculty. 



I have given them the masculine pro- 

 noun in speaking of them, for they cer- 

 tainly seemed to deserve it. Surely only 

 males could be at once so sharp and so 

 blunt, so burly, so strenuous and so de- 

 void of interest in anything but their 

 work. Yet it is a fact that in August 

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