THE SWARM 



1 would frequently find, when the box 

 arrived, that nearly ever>' one of the 

 workei^ was dead. On one occasion, 

 indeed, they had all perished of hunger: 

 but in this instance as in all others the 

 queen was alive, unharmed, and full of 

 ^^gour; and the last of her companions 

 had probabl\- passed a\\-ay in the act of 

 presenting the last drop of honey she 

 held in her sac to the queen, who was 

 symbol of: a life more precious, more 

 \-ast, than her own. 



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This unvsiivering affection having come 



under tlve notice of man, he vas able to 



turn to his own adsantage the qualities 



td which it §i\e5 rise, or that it perhaps 



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