The Life of the Bee 
toon, so that the necessary heat might be 
maintained, other bees descended into the 
hole and proceeded solidly to attach the 
metal, and connect it with the walls of ad- 
jacent cells, by means of little waxen hooks 
which they distributed regularly over its 
surface. In the upper semicircle of the 
disc they then began to construct three 
or four cells, uniting these to the hooks. 
Each of these transition, or accommo- 
dation, cells was more or less deformed 
at the top, to allow of its being soldered 
to the adjoining cell on the comb; but 
its lower portion already designed on the 
tin three very clear angles, whence there 
ran three little straight lines that correctly 
indicated the first half of the following 
cell. 
After forty-eight hours, and notwith- 
standing the fact that only three bees at 
a time were able to work in the cavity, 
the entire surface of the tin was covered 
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