110 OUR BACKDOOR NEIGHBORS 



Here he took his visitor to show her how the 

 incoming bees unloaded their pollen baskets, 

 and how the nurses fed the baby bees that 

 opened their mouths like hungry baby birds. 

 They watched the queen also as she went about 

 her egg-laying, and the busy workers sealing 

 up the cells of ripened honey. Truly, from 

 the roadside weeds they gathered a harvest of 

 gold. 



