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INCE honey-bees eat almost nothing 
but pollen and honey, a good. store 
of these has to be laid up for winter use, 
as well as to feed all the young bees and 
the drones. 
Gathering honey and pollen, however, is 
but a small part of our little worker's business. 
If 1 tell you there is something very won- 
derful about Miss Apis that you have not 
yet heard, you will not be surprised. 
Probably by this time you would be more 
surprised if you failed to hear something 
wonderful about her. 
This that I am about to tell is quite as 
wonderful as her eyes, or her honey-sac, 
or her wings, or anything else. 
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