The Work in the Hive. 103 



She has pockets I 



You do not think pockets are so very 

 wonderful ? 



Well, neither do I, jiist ordinary common- 

 place, every-day pockets for carrying pencils 

 and such things ; but what about wax 

 pockets ? Not pockets made of wax, you 

 understand, but pockets filled with wax. 



Miss Apis has a head. 



That is no news, 1 am aware, as most 

 creatures have heads. But connected with 

 her head by a short neck, as you know, 

 she has a chest, which if you want to 

 be scientific you must call a thorax. To 

 this her legs and wings are fastened, and 

 behind her thorax, and attached to it by 

 a very slender waist, is the rest of her 

 body, or as we must call it, her abdomen. 



This abdomen is jointed; it is made of 

 rings connected to each other by a skin- 

 like membrane, and the rings fit close to- 

 gether under each other, or are drawn apart 

 from each other to lengthen her abdomen. 



