40 The Bee People. 
but because they are not able. Their dagger 
sheath is not strong enough. I once saw 
a honey-bee try very hard to cut a hole in 
the long tube of a purple azalea. She could 
not reach the nectar from the front of the 
flower, because the tube was too long and 
slender, so she tried to break in the back 
way. But she could not do it, and all the 
azalea nectar she got she sucked out of holes 
which the bumble-bees had made in some 
of the flowers. The az ,alea did not make 
honey for the bees; 
yy, its long and slender 
tube was fitted to 
the tongues of large 
moths and butterflies. 
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