The Young Queens 
hexagonal prisms that some inflexible geo- 
metrician has multiplied to the verge of 
delirium. 
Over the entire area that the vertical 
walls enclose, and in the midst of this 
growing world that so soon shall transform 
itself, that shall four or five times in suc- 
cession assume fresh vestments, and then 
spin its own winding-sheet in the shadow, 
hundreds of workers are dancing, and 
flapping their wings. They appear thus 
to generate the necessary heat, and ac- 
complish some other object besides that 
is still more obscure; for this dance of 
theirs contains some extraordinary move- 
ments, so methodically conceived, that they 
must infallibly answer some purpose which 
no observer has as yet, I believe, been able 
to divine. 
A few days more, and the lids of these 
myriad urns—whereof a considerable hive 
will contain from sixty to eighty thousand 
—will break, and two large and earnest 
black eyes will appear, surmounted by 
antenne that already are groping at life, 
while active jaws are busily engaged in 
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