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 ; 



