36 ' The Bee People. 



as a boy shuts his knife-blade into the 

 handle. 



Getting honey is very easy where it is 

 in open cups, but sometimes the flower 

 sweets are in the bottoms of tubes too long 

 for the bee's tongue to reach them. 



What is she to do in such a case ? When 

 she smells a delicious meal which she can- 

 not reach, shall she pass by 

 with a sigh because she can- 

 Madam Bombus, the not get it? Sometimes 

 Bumbie-Bee. g^g jg obliged to, but some- 

 times she is helped by the bumble-bees. 



These are much larger than honey-bees ; 

 and you will know them because they are 

 covered all over with hair, as if they had on 

 furry coats. Honey-bees have very little 

 hair on the body below the waist. Bumble- 

 bees have broad bands of yellow hairs across 

 their bodies, and sometimes the whole thorax, 

 or part between the head and waist, is bright 

 yellow. Bumble-bees can always be found 

 in red clover fields. Their horny tongue- 



