104 The Bee People. 
There are six of these rings, and under- 
neath four of them, on the under-side of 
wher abdomen, are shallow hol- 
lows, two on each ring, and 
Athese eight hollows are the wax 
Miss Apis’s Wax 110 wax pockets; only the 
Pockets with the workers have them. 
Seen If you think Miss Apis 
gathers the wax somewhere and puts it 
into these pockets, you are as much mis- 
taken as if you thought two and two 
were nine. She does not gather it; she 
makes it. 
By this time you will understand she is 
rather peculiar. 
When you undertake to store up honey, 
you must have something to put it in. 
You cannot put it on the floor or in a 
corner where everybody that went near it 
would stick fast, and where it would run 
out and be wasted. 
