60 The Bee People. 
one wing at a time and holding it tightly 
against her side while she polishes it with 
her brushes. 
She spends a great deal of time rubbing 
her hind legs together, and 
a % sometimes she performs the 
~ “~<difficult acrobatic feat of standing 
on hertwo front legs and rubbing the other 
four together. 
She looks very cunning as she rubs and 
scrubs every part of her fuzzy little Poe 
and if you want to see her do —2. = 
it, all you need do is to look. > 
No matter how dirty she may have become, 
if she is allowed to stand still for a few 
minutes she will look as if she had on a new 
suit of clothes and had never known what 
it was to touch a speck of dirt; so effective 
are her numerous brushes and ronibe: 
A Bee’s Brush an Coan 
