The Life of the Bee 
mands. We have here the union of 
two mighty instincts; and their workings 
throw into light, though they leave unre- 
solved, many an enigma of the hive. 
It will happen, for instance, that the 
workers will distance her, and acquire a 
certain start; whereupon, mindful of 
their duties as careful housewives to pro- 
vide for the bad days ahead, they hasten 
to fill with honey the cells they have 
wrested from the avidity of the species. 
But the queen approaches ; material wealth 
must give way to the scheme of nature ; 
and the distracted workers are compelled 
with all speed to remove the importunate 
treasure. 
But assume them to be a whole comb 
ahead, and to have no longer before them 
her who stands for the tyranny of days 
they shall none of them see; we find 
then that they eagerly, hurriedly, build 
a zone of large cells, cells for males ; 
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