io6 The Bee People. 



You and I, who have studied Physiology 

 a little, know that when people are able 

 to digest much sugar they become fat. Th^ 

 sugar is someway turned into fat. 



Eating a great deal of sugar is not 

 the same thing as digesting a great deal, 

 please remember that. When people eat 

 a great deal of sugar, as, for instance, candy 

 and other sweetmeats, at all hours of the 

 day, it generally does not digest; it does 

 something very different, and ultimately 

 makes them sick. But bees are so happily 

 constituted that they can digest all they eat. 



When a bee eats so much honey that 

 she can do nothing but sleep, as it were, 

 until she gets over the effects, we might 

 be tempted to call her a glutton. But 

 we must not judge bees by ourselves. In 

 some respects they are wiser than we. 

 When a bee gorges herself with honey, 

 she knows what she is doing. She knows 

 she will not suffer from indigestion, for 

 one thing, and she knows she will not 



