154 MAEY'S GAEDEN AND HOW IT GEEW 



rhododendron here, and you shall see some of his 

 badness. Do you see the brown spot there at the 

 base of the flower, on the outside, just where the 

 sweet is t " 



Mary nodded. 



"Yes ; that is where the bee has broken in and 

 taken his breakfast without paying for it. He should 

 have, gone in at the front door instead of breaking 

 into the pretty house like that. Ha ! Here is a big 

 fellow come to steal now. Watch him ! See, he does 

 not even try to go inside." 



Sure enough, the bee was buzzing contentedly at 

 the base of the flower in his most businesslike man- 

 ner. In a moment he went singing away, leaving a 

 small hole the mark of his misdeeds behind him. 

 k "You see," said Herr Trommel, severely, "if he 

 could not get inside, he should know that the sweet 

 was not for him ; the flower was perhaps saving it 

 for some pretty moth. What he could not get in the 

 right way he took in the wrong way. No, they are 

 not so good, those bees. They buzz, buzz, to make 

 you think they are working very hard ; but they 

 are gossips and matchmakers and busybodies, and it 

 is all getting, getting, and more than they need. I 

 think the liebe Gott likes the flowers just as well. 



