THE NEW QUEEN. 
EANTIME all is not fair weather in 
the old hive. 
The new queen, although just out of her 
cell, understands her business perfectly, and 
is quite capable of going about it, but there 
are complications. Hers was not the only 
queen cell in that hive. 
There were others. And now, just as 
she has ascended the throne with the old 
queen peaceably out of the way, the suc- 
cession being accomplished without oppo- 
sition, lo and behold! she hears a sound, — 
a sound that probably sends the blood to 
her heart, and causes her very toes to tingle. 
The sound she hears is not that of can- 
non afar, nor of drum-beats in the distance, 
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