34 The Bee People. 
Miss Apis’s tongue is surrounded by rings 
of hairs which hold fast the nectar and 
enable her to draw it up into her mouth 
through the tube made by her tongue- 
sheaths, 
The very tip of her tongue is like a little 
round plate and helps her to lick up the 
¢, honey. 
You see by now that Miss 
tongue, as we might say. We 
speak of poets and orators as having honeyed 
tongues, but I leave it to you if any of 
a 
when she is not eating, you can- | 
not see her tongue at all, as it is 
folded back under her head. { 
You can see her tightly closed jaws, 
J, J, and her upper lip, but not her tongue. 
Here she has opened her jaws and let 
her tongue down between them, but you 
