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FIRST BOOK. 
Part of Honeycomb with 
Queen's Cell. 
ceils, first fixing some wax to the place from 
which the comb is to hang. 
4. The cells are all six- 
sided, except a few which 
are meant for the young 
queen-bees. Those cells are 
larger than the rest, and 
shaped something like a 
thimble, as you see in the 
picture. When the cells are 
ready, some of the bees begin to store honey in 
them. But first they must visit the flowers, and 
make the honey. 
5. The bee has a trunk, or long 
tongue, with hairs on it, forming 
a sort of brush. With this it sucks 
or wipes up the sweet juices of 
the flowers ; these it swallows into 
its honey -bag, where they turn 
into the honey which the bee 
pours into the cells of the comb. 
6. And how does the bee take 
home the yellow flower-dust which 
it makes into '^bee-bread"? The 
worker-bee has very broad and 
hairy legs, so that the flower-dust 
clings to them, the long hairs hold- 
ing it, as in a basket, while the bee flies home. 
Head of Bee (shown 
much larger than it 
really is), showing the 
brush-like Tongue. 
