I04 The Bee People. 



There are six of these rings, and under- 

 neath four of them, on the under-side of 

 her abdomen, are shallow hol- 

 lows, two on each ring, and 

 I these eight hollows are the wax 

 [pockets. 

 The queen and the drones have 

 Miss Apis's" Wax "0 wax pockcts ; only the 

 Swa^'lw! workers have them. 



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gathers the wax somewhere and puts it 

 into these pockets, you are as much mis- 

 taken as if you thought two and two 

 were nine. She does not gather it; she 

 makes it. 



By this time you will understand she is 

 rather peculiar. 



When you undertake to store up honey, 

 you must have something to put it in. 

 You cannot put it on the floor or in a 

 corner where everybody that went near it 

 would stick fast, and where it would run 

 out and be wasted. 



