The Life of the Bee 



tame bees with their box of honey, they 

 gather up from the flowers and imprison 

 one or more bees, and after they have 

 become sufficiently gorged, let them out 

 to return to their home with their easily 

 gotten load. Waiting patiently a longer 

 or shorter time, according to the distance 

 of the bee-tree, the hunter scarcely ever 

 fails to see the bee or bees return accom- 

 panied by other bees, which are in like 

 manner imprisoned till they in turn are 

 filled ; then one or more are let out at 

 places distant from each other, and the 

 direction in which the bee flies noted; 

 and thus, by a kind of triangulation, the 

 position of the bee-tree proximately 

 ascertained." 



[47] 

 You will notice too in your experi- 

 ments that the friends who appear to 

 obey the behests of good fortune do not 

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