36 THE GIRL’S STORY BOOK.

 

a great deal of earnestness and
some ill-humor. The Bee had
secured his load of honey, and
was ready to go back to ‘his
hive. But he had some curr
osity to know what his good
friends were disputing about ;
and so he sat still, in the bot-
tom of a lily, where he could
not be seen, and listened to all
that was said.

The Bee soon perceived that