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RAISING A QUEEN, 
a pyramidal figure, and hanging per¬ 
pendicularly. The workers gnaw a- 
way the cells surrounding the cylin¬ 
drical tube, mercilessly sacrificing 
the worms, and use the wax in con¬ 
structing a new pyramidal tube, which 
they solder at right angles to the 
first, and work it downwards. The 
siae of this perpendicular cell decreas¬ 
es insensibly from the base, which 
is very wide, down to the point. Du¬ 
ring the two days that it is inhabit¬ 
ed by a worm, a bee constantly keeps 
its head more or less inserted into 
the cell, and when one quits it, ano¬ 
ther comes to supply its place. In 
