ii6 



The Bee People. 



she did, what would become of the bee- 

 bread ? 



We do not often see bee-bread in these 

 days, because we have given Miss Apis 

 little wooden frames for her honey-comb, 

 and when we take these from the hive, only 

 those containing pure honey are sent to 

 market. If there is bee-bread in any of 

 the frames, they are returned to the hive. 



When Miss Apis comes home with her 

 pollen baskets full, she scrapes out her load 

 into a wax jar, or cell, as I suppose we ought 

 to call it. 



You remember the little crowbar she has 

 on her middle leg for prying the sticky 

 mass out^Mof her pollen _ -^^^// 

 basket. 



