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THE IIONEY— MAKERS. 
ures'bf the hive have been universally esteemed; 
and there is not a child who reads this book that 
does not know the bee by sight and honey by 
taste. 
Like all the works of the Creator, this little 
insect is deserving of our closer study, and our 
more intimate acquaintance. The shrinking fear 
of it we have felt, and perhaps the real aversion 
with which our childhood mind has been filled 
against it, will then change to admiration, and 
even affectionate regard. The life and habits of 
the bee, and its home with its thousand wonders, 
lead us to see the invisible God through his 
works ; to recognize a great First Cause, “ in 
whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and 
