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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
175
But
the
largest
number
begin
to
hang
in
a
cluster
from
the
roof
just
as
they
did
from
the
bough
of
the
apple
tree.
What
are
they
doing
there?
Watch
for
a
little
while
and
you
will
soon
see
one
bee
come
out
from
among
its
companions
and
settle
on
the
top
of
the
inside
of
the
hive,
turning
herself
round
and
round,
so
as
to
push
the
other
bees
back,
and
to
make
a
space
in
which
she
can
work.
Then
she
will
begin
to
pick
at
the
under
part
of
her
body
with
her
fore-legs,
and
will
bring
a
scale
of
wax
from
a
curious
sort
of
pocket
under
her
abdomen.
Holding
this
wax
in
her
claws,
she
will
bite
it
with
her
hard,
pointed
upper
jaws,
which
move
to
and
fro
sideways
like
a
pair
of
pincers,
then,
moistening
it
with
her
tongue
into
a
kind
of
paste,
she
will
draw
it
out
like
a
ribbon
and
plaster
it
on
the
top
of
the
hive.
After
that
she
will
take
another
piece;
for
she
has
eight
of
these
little
wax-pockets,
and
she
will
go
on
till
they
are
all
exhausted.
Then
she
will
fly
away
out
of
the
hive,
leaving
a
small
lump
on
the
hive
ceiling
or
on
the
bar
stretched
across
it;
then
her
place
will
be
taken
by
another
bee
who
will
go
through
the
same
manoeuvres.
This
bee
will
be
followed
by
another,
and
another,
till
a
large
wall
of
wax
has
been
built,
hanging
from
the
bar
of
the
hive
as
in
Fig.
55,
only
that
it
will
not
yet
have
cells
fashioned
in
it.
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