The Life of the Bee 
one city knows not the other, and assist- 
ance never is given. And even though 
the bee-keeper deposit the hive, in which 
he has gathered the old queen and Ker 
attendant cluster of bees, by the side of 
the abode they have but this moment 
quitted, they would seem, be the disaster 
never so great that shall now have befallen 
them, to have wholly forgotten the peace 
and the happy activity that once they had 
known there, the abundant wealth and the 
safety that had then been their portion ; 
and all, one by one, and down to the last 
of them, will perish of hunger and cold 
around their unfortunate queen rather 
than return to the home of their birth, 
whose sweet odour of plenty, the fragrance, 
indeed, of their own past assiduous labour, 
reaches them even in their distress. 
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