THE BEE’S STORY 
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to do our duty, without regard to 
our inclinations.” 
“And do you, as well as the rest 
of us, give special food to the larvse 
that are to become queens?” asked 
the wasp. 
“Oh, certainly. The way we man¬ 
age is this: we provide cells of 
different sizes for the eggs that our 
queen lays. The workers are in 
the smallest ones, the males in the 
middle-sized ones, and the queen- 
eggs in the largest ones. The queen 
lays the workers’ eggs first, the 
drones’ next and the queens’ last. 
When I tell you that our queen 
(for of course we have but one in 
a hive at a time) lays at least two 
hundred eggs a day, from the 
