36 The Bee People. 
as a boy shuts his knife-blade into the 
handle. 
Getting honey is very easy where it is 
in open cups, but sometimes the flower 
sweets are in the bottoms of tubes too long 
for the bee’s tongue to reach them. 
What is she to do in such acase? When 
she smells a delicious meal which she can- 
not reach, shall she pass by 
» =withasigh because she can- 
Midine Bearstinss re not get it? Sometimes 
Bumble-Bee. she is obliged to, but some- 
times she is helped by the bumble-bees. 
These are much larger than honey-bees ; 
and you will know them because they are 
covered all over with hair, as if they had on 
furry coats. Honey-bees have very little 
hair on the body below the waist. Bumble- 
bees have broad bands of yellow hairs across 
their bodies, and sometimes the whole thorax, 
or part between the head and waist, is bright 
yellow. Bumble-bees can always be found 
in red clover fields. Their horny tongue- 
