The Work in the Hive. 105 
You must have bottles, or cans, or jars, 
or something of that kind to put it in. 
If you are a bee you cannot go to the 
store and buy these things; you have to 
make them. You have no glass to make 
them of, and would not know how if you 
had. So you gorge yourself with honey, 
eat all you possibly can, then go hang 
yourself up in the top of the hive and 
wait. 
That is what the bees at the head of 
this chapter are doing. 
And now you see how very important 
their hook-like toes are, for all they have 
to do is to turn up their toes and hook 
them fast to the hive or to the foot of 
another bee. 
This time, you understand, the honey 
has actually been eaten, not stored away 
to be drawn back into the mouth again 
and deposited in the hive. It has been 
eaten, and the bee now keeps still while 
this heavy meal digests. 
