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box, he takes it in a way that I cannot explain any better than 

 to say he slips it under his chin, in the mandibles or jaws. 

 When thus equipped, you would never know he was encumbered 

 with anything, unless it chanced to slip out, when he will very 

 dexterously tuck it back with one of his forefeet. The little 



Fig. 45. 



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(Prom Advanced Bee Culture. By W. Z. Hutchinson.) 



plate of wax is so warm, from being kept under his chin, as to 

 be quite soft when it gets back; and as he takes it out, and 

 gives it a pinch against the comb where the building is going 

 on, one would think he might stop a while and put it into place; 

 but not he; for off he scampers and twists around so many dif- 

 ferent ways, you might think he was not one of the working 



