Miss Apiss Sting. 8i 



You remember her sting is barbed like 

 a fish-hook ; and if you have gone fishing 

 much, you know how hard it is to pull a 

 fish-hook out of anything into which it 

 happens to get fastened. 



Well, when Miss Apis recklessly plunges 

 ten pairs of barbs into the tough skin of 

 your finger, she cannot pull them out again ; 

 and in her efforts to do so, out comes sting, 

 poison-bag and all, and off she goes, hurt 

 much worse than you are, for she will 

 surely die as a result of her loss. 



She has left her poor savage little sting 

 in your finger, much against her will, how- 

 ever ; and your first care should be to extract 

 it so as not to press out any more poison 

 from the poison bag. 



This you can do by pressing the flat 

 edge of a penknife against your skin 

 close to the sting, but not touching it, 

 and then drawing out the sting, just as 

 you might take out a tack with a tack- 

 hammer. 



