Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-01

only ss it na sfs 1 'sss': and I've sl
.'Oh, Hive subsists
the Hival Honey which "ClouAr 70 AZ r,,ar
the Hive produces" said a
blind Oddly squattng
storecell
But honey is gathered from flowers outside-two
miles away sometimes" cried Melissa
Pardon me-, said the blind thing, sucking hard.
But this is the Hive is not?"
1T Worse luck, Is"
And the Hiva Honey is here il 1t notr' It opened
a fresh store-cell to prove it.
.'Ye-es. won't be long, at this rate" said
Melissa.
The rates have nothing to do with it. This
produces the Hiyal Honey. You people never seem
the essential simplicity that underlies all
"oh. me- said poor Melissa, haven't you
been beyond the Cater"
Certainly not A fools eyes are ends of the
Mine in head" 1t gorged till it bloated
Melissa took refuge in her poorly paid field WORK
and told Sacharissa the story.
Tut" said the wise bee. frettng with an oio
maid of a thistle. Tell something new. The
Hives full Of such HINT. mean
What's the end to be? All the honey going out
and none coming Things can't last this wayr said
Who cares?" said sacharissa. Il know now how
feel the day before they're killed. A snort iihs
a merry for me.'
IF it only merry! But think OF those AWFUL
solemn lop- Oddities waiting for US at home
crawling and cambering and prsacnIhs-ahu o'A'''ns
things in the dark .
Il don't mind much as their silly songs
after we've fed EN- all about work among the merry
merry blossoms" said Sacharissa from the oeeps Oh
q stale Canterbury bell.
Il do Hows Queen?" said Melissa
"Cheerfully hopeless, as usual But she i"Ss ."
egg and then"
Does she so?' Melissa out OF the next bell
jerk. Suppose now we sound WORKERS 1.ie0
to raise a Princess some clean corner9
You'd be put to 1t to find one Inc f1ive al
wax-moth muckings. But-weHE
"A Princess might help in the time OF the ' oioe
behind the Veil that the Queen talks Of. And any
thing is better working for Oddities that chirrup
about that they can't do. and waste wna' We
bring home"
who cares?" said Sacharissa. I'm with you: Tor
the fun of it, The Oddities would ball us to deatn
they knew Come home, and Well begin.
- HERE Is no room tell how the experienced
l Melissa found a far-on frame SO messed anu
i mishandled by abandoned cell-buildng expert
mens that for very shame bees never went there
How in that ruin she blocked out Royal Cen OF
sound wax disguised by rubbish TIL II looKeo
like kopje among deserted kop1es HOW sne pre-
vailed upon the hopeless Queen to make one las.
effort lay worthy egg How the queen ooeyeo
and died How her spent carcass was huhs OUT On
the rubbish heap. and how multitude OF iasiHs
sisters went about dropping drone-eggs where they
listed and said there more need OF queens
How covered by confusion. Sacharissa educated
young bees to educate certain newborn bees
the almost lost art of making Royal Jelly. no"
the it out of hours In the teeth OF
chill winds. How the hidden egg Matched true-no
drone, but Blood Royal How it was capped ana
how desperately they worked to feed and double feed
the swarning Oddities. lest any break In the
supplies should them to institutng inquiries,
which, songs about work. was their favorite
amusement. How in suspicious hour, on moon
night the Princess came forth-a Princess indeed
and how Melissa struggled her into a deep empty
honey ma gazine. bide her time; and how the
drones, knowing she there. went about singing
the deep disreputabe love-songs of the old days-to
scandal of the laying sisters who did not think
well of drones. These things written in the Book
Queens, which is laid up in the hollow of the Great
Ash Ygdrasil.
a days the weather changed again and
became glorious Even the Oddities would now JOIN
the crowd that hung the alighting board. ana
sing of work among the merry, merry blossoms
till an unframed might have received 1T for the
hum Of a working hive. Yet, in truth their store
honey had been eaten long They lived from day
to day efforts of the few sound bees while the
Wax-moths and consumed again their ALREADY
ruined wax But sound bees never mentioned
these facts They knew, If they did. the Oddlties
would hold a meeting and ball them to death
Now you what we have done. said the wax
H nennon. a New TYPE. as we said we would"
And new na for gwen sa u new
More than that the Oddities in the sun,
earth Heaven, cloudless and accessible 4t Vas 5b
merry blossoms waiting only our honest t1 p
croeus and her season a the
Chry after her kind ana the Dusoer Rose
5h Holy HSneSus Melissa. awesrusk II
they've forgotten the Order OF the Flowers! "hae
will Of tn cross the aghting as the
& sli ne of Ta ne srawsa
tn tine and od live Voice toe he eng Give me the
Melissa heard and darted through the gate eome
Queen Gu eo" foretoId princess, Come
oddi Kea IN an SG si,eHsa soo hays
ehe 5Ia late ' IN he a Are you it's
h i'si Tsatimes Let's sins grace. - - .~.
sachariss had run TO What was lett fertile
re VI and guards
sfo nd sh the and P'e
The Princess first clear fearless can t h mao