The Life of the Bee 
upon it when engaged in searching for nests. 
Mr. Josiah Emery remarks on this head 
(quoted by Romanes in his “Intellect of 
Animals”’): ‘Going to a field or wood at a 
distance from tame bees with their box of 
honey, they gather up from the flowers and 
imprison one or more bees, and after they 
have become sufficiently gorged, let them 
out to return to their home with their 
easily-gotten load. Waiting patiently a 
longer or shorter time, according to the 
distance of the bee-tree, the hunter scarcely 
ever fails to see the bee or bees return 
accompanied by other bees, which are in like 
manner imprisoned till they in turn are 
filled, when one or more are let out at 
places distant from each other, and the 
direction in which the bee flies noted; and 
thus, by a kind of triangulation, the position 
of the bee-tree proximately ascertained.” 
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You will notice, too, in your experiments, 
that the friends who appear to obey the 
behests of good fortune do not always fly 
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