The Life of the Bee 
haustible treasure of their marvellous laws 
and customs, on their love of peace and 
order, their devotion to the public weal, 
and fidelity to the future; on the adroit 
strength, the earnest disinterestedness, of 
their character, and, above all, on the un- 
tiring’ devotion with which they fulfil 
their duty. But the enumeration of such 
procedures belongs rather to technical 
treatises on apiculture, and would take us 
too far.’ 
1 The stranger queen is usually brought into the 
hive enclosed in a little cage, with iron wires, which 
is hung between two combs. The cage has a door 
made of wax and honey, which the workers, their 
anger over, proceed to gnaw, thus freeing the prisoner, 
whom they will often receive without any ill-will. 
Mr. Simmins, manager of the great apiary at Rotting- 
dean, has recently discovered another method of intro- 
ducing a queen, which, being extremely simple and 
almost invariably successful, bids fair to be generally 
adopted by apiarists who value their art. It is the 
behaviour of the queen that usually makes her intro- 
duction a matter of so great difficulty. She is almost 
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