106 The Bee People. 
You and I, who have studied Physiology 
a little, know that when people are able 
to digest much sugar they become fat. The 
sugar is someway turned into fat. 
Eating a great deal of sugar is not 
the same thing as digesting a great deal, 
please remember that. When people eat 
a great deal of sugar, as, for instance, candy 
and other sweetmeats, at all hours of the 
day, it generally does not digest; it does 
something very different, and ultimately 
makes them sick. But bees are so happily 
constituted that they can digest all they eat. 
When a bee eats so much honey that 
she can do nothing but sleep, as it were, 
until she gets over the effects, we might 
be tempted to call her a glutton. But 
we must not judge bees by ourselves. In 
some respects they are wiser than we. 
When a bee gorges herself with honey, 
she knows what she is doing. She knows 
she will not suffer from indigestion, for 
one thing, and she knows she will not 
