62 The Bee People. 



Then these bad birds sit on a branch and 

 " look as innercent as yer mammy's mockin' 

 bird," as Uncle Remus would say, just as if 

 they had never eaten a bee in their lives, 

 nor even thought of such a thing. But if 

 Js fortunate she gets home. 

 She does not w^alk home, 

 llnor yet run ; she flies. 



For, as you know, she has 

 ^^^wings. Dainty wings they are 

 too. They are transparent. and 

 Pfcolorless like glass, and are very thin and 

 "delicate. They shine in the light, or you 

 would scarcely notice them. 



Miss Apis seems to have only two wings, 

 though really there are four of them. 



Whatever Miss Apis has she appears 

 always to have in abundance ; and when 

 wings are in question, she must needs have 

 four, although birds and dragons and such 

 economical creatures are content with two. 

 She can fold her four wings down very 

 neatly over her back when she wants to 



