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/ The Young Queens 
sand eyes will question, reflect, and retain 
the trees and the fountain, the gate and 
the walls, the neighbouring windows and 
houses, till at last the aerial course where- 
on their return shall glide have become 
as indelibly stamped in their memory as 
though it were marked in space by two 
lines of steel. 
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A new mystery confronts us here, which 
we shall do well to challenge; for though 
it reply not, its silence still will extend the 
field of our conscious ignorance, which 
is the most fertile of all that our activity 
knows. How do the bees contrive to 
find their way back to the hive that they 
cannot possibly see, that is hidden, per- 
haps, by the trees, that in any event must 
form an imperceptible point in space? 
How is it that if taken in a box te a spot 
two or three miles from their home, they 
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