THE SWARA\ 



will flit through it, unperceiving, but to 

 the poor slave of love, heavier and more 

 corpulent than her daughters, it offers 

 an impassable barrier. The bees, when 

 they find that the queen has not fol- 

 lowed, will return to the hive, and scold 

 the unfortunate prisoner, hustle and 

 ill-treat her, accusing her of laziness, 

 probably, or suspecting her of feeble 

 miad. On their second departure, when 

 they find that she still has not fol- 

 lowed, her ill-faith becomes evident to 

 them, and their attacks grow more 

 serious. And finally, when they shall 

 have gone forth once more, and still 

 with the same result, they will almost 

 always condemn her, as being irremedi- 

 ably faithless to her destiny and to the 



