BEES IN THE HIVE. 211 
years we have learnt that she performs a most curious 
and wonderful work in the world outside her home, 
and that we owe to her not only the sweet honey we 
eat, but even in a great degree the beauty and gay 
colours of the flowers which she visits when collecting 
it. This work will form the subject of our next 
lecture, and while we love the little bee for her con- 
stant industry, patience, and order within the hive, 
we shall, I think, marvel at the wonderful law of 
nature which guides her in her unconscious mission of 
love among the flowers which grow around it. 
