LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
THE AIR RESOUNDS with their song frontispiece 
NOTHING WAS MORE PICTURESQUE than 
a cottage bee-yard 
THE ROYAL CRADLES for the young queens 17 
BEES CHOOSE dar\ colors for attac\ 17 
COTTAGE BEEKEEPERS practiced this method 25 
A QUEEN and her ladies-in-waiting 32 
A PLEASANT, uneventful interview 33 
ONE AFTER ANOTHER they stream into the hive 51 
THE BEES PILLAGE the flowers 81 
I TRACED THEM to a cleft in the roc\s 96 
WONG STOOD THERE for several hours 96 
TRANSFERRING a colony 97 
AND PERHAPS A STOOL under a tree 97 
LET HER TAKE her worries to the bees 105 
THE COMB MAY BE blac\ as ebony 112 
THE BEE-HUNTER with his spoils from the 
tree-hive 113 
“SEEING ONLY what is fair”— 121 
BEE-HUNTER'S diagram 123 
