they had accepted her and grown quiet, 
when we shut the hive up for that day. 
w The next day we began observations again, 
to find her fair body gliding with dignity 
and deliberation over the brood-combs, her 
retinue faithfully following her about, every 
head deferentially turned toward her. Oc- 
casionally she stopped; a worker-bee would 
thrust out a tongue from which her lady- 
ship drew for herself honey fresh from the 
other's honey-sac; then she would thought- 
fully pursue her way over the combs, stick- 
ing her head into cell after cell. If empty, 
she at once thrust herself into it, depositing 
an egg. Thus she continued before our eyes 
— a symmetrical lovely little creature shin- 
ing with black and gold bands over her back 
— at the rate of 3000 eggs in a day. In 
twenty-one days we saw her young bees 
about the entrance. We began to read bee- 
books. We took, between us, a periodical 
treating monthly the subject of apiculture. 
When vacation came we put on each hive a 
crate holding twenty-eight one-pound sec- 
tions, such as are sold in groceries, in which 
they were to store surplus — that is, honey 
for us to remove — besides what they stored 
below in the brood-frames for themselves 
and for the support of their young bees. 
When we got back in the fall, we never fail- 
ed of our full crate of twenty-eight boxes of 
honey. We gave it around to professors or 
to friends. One of mine, on one occasion, 
was presented to our much-loved and world- 
known Professor William Henry Green. 
His acknowledgment is one of my auto- 
graph treasures. 
If we had been on the scene during the 
honey season, we should have secured at 
least one crate more of honey; for, on the 
average, I have found that an attentive bee- 
keeper in a small way — that is, say with two 
to five colonies — will generally get two su- 
