The Life of the Bee 
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 accom- 
panied by other bees, which are in like 
manner imprisoned till they in turn are 
filled; then 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.” 
[47] 
You will notice too in your experi- 
ments that the friends who appear to 
obey the behests of good fortune do not 
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