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The Fairy-Land of Science
·
Arabella B. Buckley
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At
last
a
suitable
day
arrives,
and
about
ten
or
eleven
o'clock
in
the
morning
the
old
queen
leaves
the
hive,
taking
with
her
about
2000
drones
and
from
12,000
to
20,000
worker-bees,
which
fly
a
little
way
clustering
round
her
till
she
alights
on
the
bough
of
some
tree,
and
then
they
form
a
compact
swarm
ready
for
a
new
hive
or
to
find
a
home
of
their
own.
Leaving
them
to
go
their
way,
we
will
now
return
to
the
old
hive.
Here
the
liberated
princess
is
reigning
in
all
her
glory;
the
worker-bees
crowd
round
her,
watch
over
her,
and
feed
her
as
though
they
could
not
do
enough
to
show
her
honour.
But
still
she
is
not
happy.
She
is
restless,
and
runs
about
as
if
looking
for
an
enemy,
and
she
tries
to
get
at
the
remaining
royal
cells
where
the
other
young
princesses
are
still
shut
in.
But
the
workers
will
not
let
her
touch
them,
and
at
last
she
stands
still
and
begins
to
beat
the
air
with
her
wings
and
to
tremble
all
over,
moving
more
and
more
quickly,
till
she
makes
quite
a
loud,
piping
noise.
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