18 The Bee People. 
Tam sure you would do anything to keep» 
it away, and if you had a‘good sharp sting 
you would use it. So we must not blame 
the Bee People for stinging us. 
It is the only way they have of telling us 
to keep away and let them alone. 
They are friendly enough to their own 
relations, as you will agree when you learn 
that there are sometimes as many as sixty 
thousand of them living happily together in 
one family. 
Sometimes we build houses, which we 
call hives, for them, and sometimes they 
live in a hollow tree in the woods. 
The hives we usually make in these days 
are Square-cornered boxes that can be opened 
