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22 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." I 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 inside 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 gone too People talk of the courage of the lion, but me.