99 THE CAUSE AND THE CAUSER.

like these. Our cousins the hive-bees, who find
out pretty nearly everything, have a tradition that
no flower-seeds can grow without it, and I believe
them. Certainly it commonly falls on some sticky
surface or stalk just over where the. seeds lie.
Why there’s flower-dust enough in a single white
lily to colour you bright yellow from horns to
shell, Sir Helix ! If you'll come up into one with
me some day I will show you.”

“T had rather take the fact on trust from my
learned brother,” rejoined the sitting magistrate.
‘Meantime, while I am thinking the matter over,
surely you gentlemen who are so constantly in-
side the flowers will not have much difficulty in
finding out which of them grows these (as you say)
unusual flower-dust bundles. Adieu! Buzz into
my shell when you can answer my question.”

He was gone, and the assistant bumble, a little
disconcerted at the result of his interference, began
to call for the professor to tell them what to do
next. But the professor was gore too !

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