116 The Bee People. 
she did, what would become of the bee- 
bread P 
We do not often see bee-bread in these 
days, because we have given Miss Apis 
little wooden frames for her honey-comb, 
and when we take these from the hive, only 
those containing pure honey are sent to 
market. If there is bee-bread in any of 
the frames, they are returned to the hive. 
When Miss Apis comes home with her 
pollen baskets full, she scrapes out her load 
into a wax jar, or cell, as I suppose we ought 
to call it. 
You remember the little crowbar she has 
on her middle leg for prying the sticky 4 
mass out Aoi her pollen 
basket. 
