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higher and higher, for a while distancing my 

 companion, because I was going upward 

 with all my might, while he was feigning un- 

 concern over my departure, and yet steadily 

 continuing in my direction. My lavish 

 waste of the colony scent came near undoing 

 all our honeymoon plans, I think; for, be- 

 fore the Prince had overtaken me I looked 

 back to see where he was, and beheld with 

 consternation hundreds of Chaps furiously 

 pursuing us. The Creator has endowed us 

 with not only many eyes, but fixed in them 

 a magnifying power, so that we are able to 

 clearly distinguish objects at great distances, 

 besides also placing a multitude of olfactory 

 nerves in our antennas, so that we may not 

 only readily find flowers afar off, but each 

 other as well. Drone bees can fly with 

 greater rapidity than either Queens or 

 Workers, and urged to all his strength by 

 the vision of that aggregate of Chaps, his 

 rivals, some of whom appeared to be of a 

 different color and belonged to another 

 apiary than ours, and excited by his affec- 



