6 Buz. 



who bumped against Buz, " get out of the way, 

 can't you ! " 



"Come, come," said another to Hum, "you 

 mustn't stand there, you know; which is it to be 

 now — in or out? " 



" I'd rather go out, please," answered Hum. 



" In fact, we've been sent out to sun," added Buz. 



"Out with you then," said the bee, " and ask one 

 of the fanners to show you where to stand." 



"What's a fanner?" thought Buz. However, 

 she didn't ask, for fear of being again told to find 

 out ; so she passed on with Hum through the 

 entrance. Just outside, a bee was standing quite 

 still, and as Buz passed she felt the ends of her 

 antennae very much whirred against and tickled, 

 and on looking up found that this was occasioned 

 by the wings of the bee in question, who was 

 moving them so fast that they were almost invisible ; 

 in fact, she was nearly lifted by them off her hind 

 legs — sometimes quite — and seemed to have hard 

 work to keep herself down by clinging on to the 

 board with the claws of her front feet. 



" I shouldn't wonder if that was a fanner," re- 

 marked Buz to Hum. 



" I'm a fanner, right enough," said the bee, who 

 had overheard her. " What of that ? " 



