The Work in the Hive. 103 
She has pockets | 
You do not think pockets are so very 
wonderful ? 
Well, neither do I, just ordinary common- 
place, every-day pockets for carrying pencils 
and such things; but what about wax 
pockets ? Not pockets made of wax, you 
understand, but pockets filled with wax. 
Miss Apis has a head. 
That is no news, I am aware, as most 
creatures have heads. But connected with 
her head by a short neck, as you know, 
she has a chest, which if you want to 
be scientific you must call a thorax. To 
this her legs and wings are fastened, and 
behind her thorax, and attached to it by 
a very slender waist, is the rest of her 
body, or as we must call it, her abdomen. 
This abdomen is jointed; it is made of 
rings connected to each other by a skin- 
like membrane, and the rings fit close to- 
gether under each other, or are drawn apart 
from each other to lengthen her abdomen. 
