The Work in the Hive. 105 



You must have bottles, or cans, or jars, 

 or something of that kind to put it in. 



If you are a bee you cannot go to the 

 store and buy these things ; you have to 

 make them. " You have no glass to make 

 them of, and would not know how if you 

 had. So you gorge yourself with honey, 

 eat all you possibly can, then go hang 

 yourself up in the top of the hive and 

 wait. 



That is what the bees at the head of 

 this chapter are doing. 



And now you see how very important 

 their hook-like toes are, for all they have 

 to do is to turn up their toes and hook 

 them fast to the hive or to the foot of 

 another bee. 



This time, you understand, the honey 

 has actually been eaten, not stored away 

 to be drawn back into the mouth again 

 and deposited in the hive. It has been 

 eaten, and the bee now keeps still while 

 this heavy meal digests. 



