146 FROM FRANCIS AND SALLIE 



the figure fours that Philip Todd sets for rabbits. 

 It isn't really so much a trap for Master Bee as 

 it is a surprise. It doesn't catch him ; but It makes 

 him do something that he knows nothing about. 

 This is carrying the golden dust. 



" You will see that the ten little things in the 

 flower's center don't stand up straight as they do 

 in most flowers. They are curved over and held 

 down by little holes like pockets in each of the 

 flower's leaves. The golden dust is at their ends. 

 Master Bee is a pretty heavy fellow to tread on 

 such delicate little places, and as soon as he lights 

 on a flower he gives it such a joggle that one or 

 more of the little pieces spring up and scatter the 

 golden dust all over him. It is so light though 

 that he doesn't mind carrying it, and perhaps the 

 very next flower he visits will take some of it off 

 his back. In the middle of each Laurel flower 

 there is the same little sticky place that you have 

 heard about in other flowers, and which is as eager 

 to get the golden dust as the little places held 

 down in the pouches are anxious to be rid of it. 

 Sometimes I wonder if the bees know anything 

 about the help they are to one flower in getting 

 rid of the golden dust, and to another in placing 

 it on the very spot where it will help make seeds. 

 I never used to think bees much brighter looking 

 than Betsy Tibbit's cows." 



After I had read all that Francis wrote about 

 Lambkill's surprise trap I took a little pin and 



