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sufficiently to use her sting before she is 

 a dead bee. 



You may think she never stings when 

 she is dead, but I have heard otherwise. 

 However, that is another story. The birds 

 that swallow her must sometimes get stung, 

 but they do not seem to object; perhaps 

 they enjoy it. 



If you really want to know whether Miss 

 Apis is willing to sting if she gets the 

 chance, pick her up some day when she 

 is getting nectar from a flower. 



You will learn several things. First, 

 that the best thing 

 >you can do under 

 the circumstances 

 is to let her go as soon as possible, and 

 pursue some other path to knowledge. 



But if you are a philosopher, you will 

 not fail to observe what a very convenient 

 position her sting occupies, as convenient 

 for its purpose as the pollen-baskets are 

 for theirs. She twists her jointed abdomen 



