62 The Bee People. 
Then these bad birds sit on a branch and 
“look as innercent as yer mammy’s mockin’ 
bird,” as Uncle Remus would say, just as if 
they had never eaten a bee in their lives, 
nor even thought of such a thing. But if 
is fortunate she gets home. 
ye She does not walk home, 
A \nor yet run; she flies. 
For, as you know, she has 
Vdelicate. They shine in the light, or you 
would scarcely notice them. 
Miss Apis seems to have only two wings, 
though really there are four of them. 
Whatever Miss Apis has she appears 
always to have in abundance; and when 
wings are in question, she must needs have 
four, although birds and dragons and such 
economical creatures are content with two. 
She can fold her four wings down very 
neatly over her back when she wants to 
