CRADLE-CELLS. 
OME of Miss Apis’s wax cells serve 
the purpose of preserve-jars, as we 
have seen. Indeed, they all do, when we 
come to think of it. 
They do not all preserve honey and bee- 
bread, however. 
You have not forgotten that the queen- 
bee sometimes lays as many as _ three 
thousand eggs a day. Well, each little 
egg must have a cell of comb all to itself. 
You can imagine that the wax-makers and 
cell-builders do not have a chance to grow 
lazy in the busy season of egg-laying; for 
if the queen does not lay three thousand 
eggs every day, she ony upon some days, 
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