The Foundation of the City 
thousands of a terrible bowel-disease. The 
males alone are incurably careless, and will 
impudently bestrew the surface of the comb 
with their droppings, which the workers 
who hasten behind them must systematically 
remove. 
The cleaning over, the bees of the profane 
group that forms no part of the cone sus- 
pended in a sort of ecstasy, set to work 
minutely to survey the lower circumference 
of the common dwelling. Every crevice is 
passed in review, and filled, covered over 
with propolis; and the varnishing of the 
walls is begun, from top to bottom. Guards 
are appointed to take their stand at the 
gate; and very soon a certain number of 
workers will go to the fields and return 
with their burden of pollen. 
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Before raising the folds of the myste- 
rious curtain beneath whose shelter are 
laid the veritable foundations of the home, 
let us endeavour to form some conception 
of the sureness of vision, the accurate 
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