FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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time-piece to go by, the watcher may become interested 

 in something else, and think the five minutes not up when 

 double that time has passed ; but having the time meas- 

 ured out, he is free to read or do anything else between 

 times. At each five minutes, the watcher, who is sitting 



Fig. 51.— Catnip. 



at the middle of the middle row, rises, glances along the 

 back row to the north end ; then, along the middle row to 

 the north end ; then, stepping forward, glances along the 

 front row to the north end; then along the same row to 

 the south end ; then to the south end of the middle row ; 



