CRADLE-CELLS. 



SOME of Miss Apis's wax cells serve^ 

 the purpose of preserve-jars, as we 

 have seen. Indeed, they all do, when we 

 come to think of it. 



They do not all preserve honey and bee- 

 bread, however. 



You have not forgotten that the queen- 

 bee sometimes lays as many as three 

 thousand eggs a day. Well, each little 

 egg must have a cell of comb all to itself. 



You can imagine that the wax-makers and 



cell-builders do not have a chance to grow 



lazy in the busy season of egg-laying; for 



if the queen does not lay three thousand 



eggs every day, she may upon some days, 

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