The Honey-Bee. 21 
year store up honey which nobody can 
reach. Stories are told of old houses whose 
hollow walls, when they were pulled down, 
were found to be filled with honey-combs. 
It is not easy to get honey that is stored 
in the walls of houses, as the bees fight 
bravely for their property. 
Honey-bees are small people, being only 
about twice as large as common house-flies. 
Some are brown all over, and some that 
were brought here from Italy have tan-col- 
ored abdomens, but all of them, the brown 
bees, the Italian bees, and the other kinds of 
hive bees in this country, are called by the 
same name, Apis Mellifica. Apis is the 
Latin word for bee, and mellifica is the 
Latin word for honey-making; and they 
have this pretty name because they make 
and store up quantities of good honey, 
which we like to eat. 
The Bee People are sun-lovers, and all 
summer long on bright days you may see 
them hurrying about. But in the winter- 
