The Massacre of the Males 
superfluous wealth to distribute it among 
those whom misfortune, unmerited always 
in this laborious world, may have ren- 
dered necessitous. He covers the dwell- 
ings, half closes the doors, removes the 
useless frames, and leaves the bees to 
their long winter sleep. They gather 
in the centre of the hive, contract them- 
selves, and cling to the combs that con- 
tain the faithful urns; whence there shall 
issue, during days of frost, the transmuted 
substance of summer. The queen is in 
the midst of them, surrounded by her 
guard. The first row of the workers 
attach themselves to the sealed cells; a 
second row cover the first, a third the 
second, and so in succession to the last 
row of all, which form the envelope. 
When the bees of this envelope feel the 
cold stealing over them, they re-enter 
the mass, and others take their place. 
The suspended cluster is like a sombre 
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