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honey on a window. Bees soon crowded upon it. Then 

 the honey was taken away and the outside shutters were 

 closed and remained so the whole winter. When, in spring, 

 the shutters were opened again, the bees came back, 

 although there was no honey on the window. No doubt, 

 they remembered that they got honey there before. So an 

 interval of several months was not sufficient to efface the 

 impression they received." 



Bees have often smelled their way down stove-pipes and 

 through key-holes to a coveted feast of honey, and Lang- 

 stroth's bees got into his honey-house by coming down 

 the chimney and through an opening made by the motion 

 of a loose fire-place screen. 



It seems that this screen moved back and forth in 

 windy weather just enough to allow one bee to pass at a 

 time. Down the chimney came the bees and waited their 

 turn for a chance to crawl through when the opening 

 appeared. When one succeeded she is said to have ex- 

 pressed her delight by a joyful humming that led to her 

 discovery. Having appropriated a load of honey the little 

 trespasser waited until the honey-house door was opened, 

 and then flew home. 



There is another interesting story, told by Mr. Root, of 

 bees visiting a honey-house and imparting to their hive- 

 mates the joyful tidings that the door was open. 



The bees, discovered in the midst of their eager labor, 

 were expelled, and towards night all was again in order in 

 the apiary with not a bee near the honey-house door. 

 Then the bee-keeper, desiring to try a new "feeder," 

 placed it in front of one of the hives where the bees were 

 clustered on the outside. It was so^on discovered by some 

 of them that filled their honey-sacs from it and went joy- 

 fully into the hive to unload. Those inside took the hint 

 and at once out poured the inhabitants of that hive, bent 



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