XIX. 



Huckle- 

 berries. 



SOME ODD NOTIONS ABOUT BEES. 



PEOPLE used to think the 

 queen-bee was a king, and 

 ruled over all the bees in the hive. 

 They thought a hive of bees was 

 a little kingdom, with an army, and 

 officers, and all sorts of workers. 

 When you get old enough to read 

 Shakespeare's " Henry V.," you will find in 

 it a pretty story about the bees. He says,. 

 " They have a king, and officers of sorts ; " 

 and tells how some of the bees act as 

 magistrates at home, while others go abroad 

 to trade like merchants, and still others 

 are armed soldiers. Some, he tells us, are 

 masons, and do the building, others make 

 the bread and honey, yet others are porters 



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