114 The Bee People. 
All day long in and out fly the bees, 
each one leaving her little load of honey 
to help to fill the honey-comb cells. 
But why does not the honey run out 
as fast as it is put in? That question 
has not yet been answered. 
It is easier to ask than to answer, unless 
you know more about natural philosophy 
than I think you do. 
To begin with, honey is sticky. You 
know that as well as I do. And it will 
stick to honey cups as well as to anything 
else. When the bee puts a little drop in 
the bottom of a cup it tends to stick fast. 
A cellful of honey, however, is not sticky 
enough to keep from running out, as we 
know when we take off the cover to a 
honey-comb cell. To help the honey to stay 
in, the cells, as we know, are tilted up a little. 
The cells are small, and the liquid honey 
tends to remain in a small cell, just on that 
account, — which is a matter for Physics 
to explain. Then, when Miss Apis has her 
