MAY 85 



died last fall. He never sees his queen 

 established or knows his children, for he 

 dies before the kingdom has come or the 

 children have been born. 



After their September wedding they had 

 the pleasant fall before them, but I fear that 

 even then each went the way that pleased 

 him best. So that when the cold of winter 

 came, and the husband died, his wife did 

 not miss him very much, especially as she 

 herself must have felt a drowsy stiffness 

 coming over her. Of the winter* I doubt 

 whether she has any recollection at all. 

 But with the approach of warm weather 

 her wings began once more to quiver, her 

 legs to regain their old suppleness, and out 

 she came in good time to see the first 

 flowers in bloom. Over them she is now 

 busily creeping. She meets no others 

 excepting queens, who are perhaps to be 

 her neighbors, for as yet they too have no 

 subjects. 



Hunting about the fields our bumblebee 

 finds some hole that runs beneath the sod. 

 Most likely it is one of the little tunnels 



