76 THE HIVE AND HONEY-BEE. 



did miud, the smallest piece of honey-comb is a perfect 

 demonstration that there is a " Geeat First Cause." 



" On books deep poring, ye pale sons of toil, 

 Who waste in studious trance the midnight oil. 

 Say, can ye emulate, with all your rules, 

 Drawn or from Grecian or from Gothic schools, 

 This artless frame ? Instinct her simple guide, 

 A heaven-taught insect bafBes all your pride. 

 Not all yon marshall'd orbs, that ride so high, 

 Proclaim more loud a present Deity, 

 Than the nice symmetry of these small cells, 

 Where on each angler genuine science dwells." 



Evans. 



CHAPTER V. 



PEOPOLIS. 



^ This substance is obtained by the bees from the resinous 

 buds' and limbs of trees: the different varieties of poplar 

 yield a rich supply. "When first gathered, it is usually of 

 a bright golden color, and so adhesive that the bees never 

 deposit it ia cells, but apply it at once to the purposes for 

 which they procured it. If a bee is caught vi^hile bringujg 

 in a load, it will be found to adhere very firmly to her 

 legs. 



" Huber planted in Spring some branches of the wild 

 poplar, before the leaves were developed, and placed 

 them in pots near his Apiary ; the bees alighted on them, 

 separated the folds of the large buds with their for- 

 ceps, extracted the varnish ia threads, and loaded with it, 

 first one thigh and then the other ; for they convey it like 

 pollen, transferring it by the first pair of legs to the 



