MISS FORMICA’S DAY 
41 
“Out-buzz you, indeed! As though 
anyone could do that!” exclaimed 
the wasp angrily. 
“But, then, I suppose,” hummed 
the bee as though to herself, “that 
the poor, idle thing has very little 
to tell.” 
“ Which shows,” said the wasp, 
more angrily than ever, “how little 
you know about me, if you do belong 
to the same order. It is the com¬ 
mon belief, however, and I suppose 
we should not expect you to be 
wiser than the rest of the world. 
Everybody says ‘as busy as a bee,’ 
but who ever heard anyone say ‘as 
busy as a wasp’? And yet, I can 
assure you that one is quite as 
true as the other.” 
