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The Bee People. 



Miss Apis's tongue is surrounded by rings 

 of hairs which hold fast the nectar and 

 enable her to draw it up into her mouth 

 through the tube made by her tongue- 

 sheaths. 



The very tip of her tongue is like a little 

 round plate and helps her to lick up the 

 honey. 



You see by now that Miss 

 Apis's tongue is a very sweet 

 tongue, in fact, a honeyed 

 tongue, as we might say. We 

 speak of poets and orators as having honeyed 

 tongues, but 1 leave it to you if any^^of 

 them can equal Miss Apis in this^ 



If you look in Miss Apis's face 

 when she is not eating, you can- 

 not see her tongue at all, as it is 

 folded back under her head. 



You can see her tightly closed jaws, 

 J, J, and her upper lip, but not her tongue^ 



Here she has opened her jaws and let 

 her tongue down between them, but you 



