Miss Apis’s Sting. 7g 
about so that you will have hard work 
to take hold of her where she cannot 
plunge her sting into you. 
The entrance of this little sting gives rise 
to sensations out of all proportion to its size. 
A sting so small that you can hardly see it 
produces a pain so large that you do not 
seem to have room for any other feeling. 
Presently the spot about the tiny hole made 
by the sting begins to swell until it may be- 
come several times as large as Miss Apis her- 
self. That, you know, is because she takes 
good care to pump poison into the wound. 
This poison of hers is a reliable, warranted- 
never-to-fail irritant. If a whole hive of 
bees were to set upon you and sting you at 
once, you might be made very sick by it, as 
well as have to suffer great torture. 
It is said that people have even died from 
such mishaps. 
We see that little Miss Pepper-pot is not 
so innocent as she looks flying about among 
the flowers. 
