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The Fairy-Land of Science
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Arabella B. Buckley
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Do
not
such
wonderful
contrivances
as
these
make
us
long
to
know
and
understand
all
the
hidden
work
that
is
going
on
around
us
among
the
flowers,
the
insects,
and
all
forms
of
life?
I
have
been
able
to
tell
you
but
very
little,
but
I
can
promise
you
that
the
more
you
examine,
the
more
you
will
find
marvellous
histories
such
as
these
in
simple
field-flowers.
Long
as
we
have
known
how
useful
honey
was
to
the
bee,
and
how
it
could
only
get
it
from
flowers,
yet
it
was
not
till
quite
lately
that
we
have
learned
to
follow
out
Sprengel's
suggestion,
and
to
trace
the
use
which
the
bee
is
to
the
flower.
But
now
that
we
have
once
had
our
eyes
opened,
every
flower
teaches
us
something
new,
and
we
find
that
each
plant
adapts
itself
in
a
most
wonderful
way
to
the
insects
which
visit
it,
both
so
as
to
provide
them
with
honey,
and
at
the
same
time
to
make
them
unconsciously
do
it
good
service.
And
so
we
learn
that
even
among
insects
and
flowers,
those
who
do
most
for
others,
receive
most
in
return.
The
bee
and
the
flower
do
not
either
of
them
reason
about
the
matter,
they
only
go
on
living
their
little
lives
as
nature
guides
them,
helping
and
improving
each
other.
Think
for
a
moment
how
it
would
be,
if
a
plant
used
up
all
its
sap
for
its
own
life,
and
did
not
give
up
any
to
make
the
drop
of
honey
in
its
flower.
The
bees
would
soon
find
out
that
these
particular
flowers
were
not
worth
visiting,
and
the
flower
would
not
get
its
pollen-dust
carried,
and
would
have
to
do
its
own
work
and
grow
weakly
and
small.
Or
suppose
on
the
other
hand
that
the
bee
bit
a
hole
in
the
bottom
of
the
flower,
and
so
got
at
the
honey,
as
indeed
they
sometimes
do;
then
she
would
not
carry
the
pollen-dust,
and
so
would
not
keep
up
the
healthy
strong
flowers
which
make
her
daily
food.
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