14 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN 



sprightly words and phrases. Then, too, 

 doctors everywhere write "Mel" on their 

 prescription blanks when they wish a drug- 

 gist to mix honey with the rest of the medi- 

 cine in a bottle. Besides, many terms used 

 by courts and lawyers are Latin, and written 

 in their books and briefs, and are spoken 

 by diplomats and judges in court rooms and 

 elsewhere, as if they were parts of the lan- 

 guage of 1911. A United States dollar has 

 the Latin words "E Pluribus Unum" upon 

 it. Each queen of Italian honey bees is 

 still formally denominated Regina Melapis 

 in Italy, as her kind always was. So Latin 

 is not as dead as some may think. 



The first thought I ever had in this busy 

 world was when I realized that I was snugly 

 shut up in a little six sided cell of wax, with 

 my head quite near the wax capping of the 

 cell, my feet and wings compactly but 

 comfortably hugging my body, the other 

 end of my body just touching the base of 

 this cell. This small home in which, com- 



