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differently flew first to try my double wings, 

 and to mark the location of our hive. I 

 took pains to observe, however, that my 

 Master's eyes were upon me, and very rest- 

 lessly, too. Also that he had his watch in 

 his hand as if he had very soon to catch a 

 train, but what I wondered at was that he 

 kept glancing back and forth between me 

 and his timepiece. I went only a few feet 

 distant, repeating this several times, in cir- 

 cuits a little larger each time, and all un- 

 heeded as I thought by the throngs of Maids 

 and Chaps hurriedly passing to and fro 

 upon their errands, or gamboling about in 

 front of our home with a joyous humming 

 of their wings. When finally persuaded 

 that no one was paying any special atten- 

 tion to us, I returned to the Prince's side 

 on the alighting step, where he patiently 

 awaited my coming, suffused myself with 

 all the colony odor I had the racial poten- 

 tiality to emit, and speedily sailed aloft in 

 ever widening circles, closely followed by 

 my royal fiance. Fiercely I soared away, 



