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trying to kill my peaceable butterflies, so many seeds
as there are about the garden ripe and ready for food ?
Go and catch the great blue-bottles if you must have
a joint for your breakfast; there are too many of them
about, and they spoil the fruit and everything they
can get at; but the butterflies only dip their long
tongues into deep honey-bells, and do no harm, for
that is all the support they require."
 But the bees she was never wearied of watching,
and old Jacob sowed her little clumps of sunflowers
here and there, which grew to a great height, so as
to be on a level with her face, so that she could stand
close to and see their every movement, and very droll
they looked when they were covered all over with
yellow pollen, so that she couldn't see a bit of their
faces. She saw the great pockets they filled inside of
their thighs, and the wax they concealed under the
rings of their winged bodies, and knew that they
didn't eat all the honey they put into their mouths,
but only carried it to the hive, as a bird does food for
the young to its nest, and there delivered their luscious
burden honestly to other bees, who stood ready to
receive it, until the honey-cells in the hive were filled,
and the bee-bread stored away, content with their
allotted share, and knowing that enough is always a
feast," and that more is not good for them; for there
never was known to be a glutton among bees like
those we hear of amongst mankind, who eat and drink
until they make themselves ill, then have to take pills and
black draughts; for the bees are a "peculiar people"
and employ no doctors. The reason why they never
require a doctor is, they are so temperate, they keep
their little bodies so clean, are out so much in the
fresh air and among the flowers, which are very dif-
ferent things to smell of, to the gutters and sewers of