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ketless legs, and other personal possessions 
and starts off, taking with her most of the 
old bees in the hive, and leaving behind the 
young queen with the young bees and the 
honey-comb, and the brood comb full of 
eggs and larve and pupe. 
She is very generous to the young queen, 
who of course is her own daughter, and 
leaves all the furniture and silver spoons 
and everything of that sort behind. 
Away she goes, with her faithful followers 
surrounding her in a dense swarm. 
The whole swarm goes careering through 
the air like a small cyclone, and I for one 
should not like to stand in its path. 
Some say the bees send out scouts to 
find a good place before the swarm starts, 
either a hollow tree or some other con- 
venient shelter, or else they go into a nice 
new hive if somebody has been watching 
and has one ready. 
Into the new home they go, and to work 
they go; and in a little while you would 
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