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inside. You see this done in the following illustra- 

 tion. ' 



The bees now, of course, have easy admission into 

 all these sections, and generally will begin work in 

 them without delay if only the sections are kept 



Hive with Sections in Position: 



perfectly warm, and the weather is favourable. And 

 very soon some will be finished, filled with the purest 

 comb and the best of honey. 



As soon as some are filled, and the cells sealed 

 over, the bee-keeper takes them away, substituting at 

 the same time an equal number of empty sections. 

 Doubtless the bees are extremely astonished to find 

 empty sections instead of full ones. They must 

 think, that it seems like an endless task to try and 

 get them full. It must seem to them like the task of 

 Sisyphus in the old story, who had to roll to the top 

 of a hill a large stone, which had no sooner reached 

 the summit than it fell back, and the labour had to 

 be recommenced. But like good bees — giving us an 

 excellent example— ^they make the best of it, and go 



