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ketless legs, and other personal possessions 

 and starts off, taking with her most of the 

 old bees in the hive, and leaving behind the 

 young queen with the young bees and the 

 honey- comb, and the brood comb full of 

 eggs and larvae and pup^e. 



She is very generous to the young queen, 

 who of course is her own daughter, and 

 leaves all the furniture and silver spoons 

 and everything of that sort behind. 



Away she goes, with her faithful followers 

 surrounding her in a dense swarm. 



The whole swarm goes careering through 

 the air like a small cyclone, and 1 for one 

 should not like to stand in its path. 



Some say the bees send out scouts to 

 find a good place before the swarm starts, 

 either a hollow tree or some other con- 

 venient shelter, or else they go into a nice 

 new hive if somebody has been watching 

 and has one ready. 



Into the new home they go, and to work 



they go ; and in a little while you would 

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