6o Btiz. 



and this house doesn't do: it gets hot, much too 

 hot. That's one reason, and there are two or three 

 others." 



"She means by that," said a bee very softly to 

 Buz, " that there are two or three royal grubs just 

 ready to come out ; but she doesn't like alluding to 

 them, even to herself." 



" Too proud ? " asked Buz, in a whisper. 



" Too proud," answered the bee, with a confiden- 

 tial nod. 



The queen was now close to them. 



" I declare, I think I'll do it to-day," she repeated. 

 " Did you say it was fine ?" she added aloud, turn- 

 ing to her attendants. 



"Very fine, your majesty," said they. 



" Fine enough, eh?" asked the queen. 



" Fine enough for any thing, your majesty," said 

 the attendants, who were prevented by court eti- 

 quette from seeming to know what orders the queen 

 was about to give, though every one knew perfectly 

 well that every bee in the hive knew all about it. 

 Curious, perhaps ; but the laws of etiquette are 

 curious — very. 



" I hear a great noise," said the queen. " What 

 is it?" 



It was no wonder she did. Thousands of bees 



