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to their homes in little hollows in their hind legs. 

 These little hollows are sometimes called baskets, which 

 they fill and fiy away and empty them; then return 

 for a fresh supply, and thus continue throughout the 

 good weather, and when the cold winter comes, like 

 wise people, they can live comfortably from the pro- 

 ceeds of their summers work. This is a good example 

 of the wonderful instinct given some insects. They 

 are ruled and guided by a monarchial power, having a 

 queen at the head of their colony, and her commands 

 are law. If the queen die and there are no young 

 queens to take her place, the bees sometimes all die of 

 grief, or quit their work and leave the hive. The bees 

 are divided into three classes: the queen, the workers 

 and the almost useless drones which do nothing but 

 live off the induustry of the workers. These drones 

 are the largest of the three. 



Sometimes bees swarm or leave the hive and fly 

 away to the woods or some hollow tree. In such cases 

 it is very difficult to regain them, and sometimes im- 

 possible. The battering of tin pans is often resorted 

 to as an effort to bring them back. If an empty hive 

 is placed by the old one, in time they are likely to re- 

 sort to it in place of taking wing and wandering off to 

 some woods. 



Hive bees are small, of a brown color. Their wings 

 are transparent and show the little veins of which they 

 are made. Their eyes are large and placed very 

 near each other at the front; they are compound in 

 structure and have a smooth glassy appearance. A 

 small pointed proboscis is placed before the mouth. 



