Among the farmyard people . one. She was a fine young Queen, and theBees were all proud of her. They let herdo anything she wished as long as shekept away from the royal cells. She soonbegan to work as the old Queen Motherhad done, and was very happy in her ownway. She would have liked to open theroyal cells and prevent more Queens fromhatching, and when they told her it wasthe law which made them keep her away,she still wanted to bite into them. 11 That poor young Queen Mother!sighed the tender-hearted Worker. Iam so sorry for her when she is kept awayfrom the royal cells. This is a sad, sadw
Among the farmyard people . one. She was a fine young Queen, and theBees were all proud of her. They let herdo anything she wished as long as shekept away from the royal cells. She soonbegan to work as the old Queen Motherhad done, and was very happy in her ownway. She would have liked to open theroyal cells and prevent more Queens fromhatching, and when they told her it wasthe law which made them keep her away,she still wanted to bite into them. 11 That poor young Queen Mother!sighed the tender-hearted Worker. Iam so sorry for her when she is kept awayfrom the royal cells. This is a sad, sadworld! But this isn t a sad world byany means. It is a beautiful, sunshiny, The Fussy Queen Bee 63 happy world, and neither Queen Bees noranybody else should think it hard if theycannot do every single thing they law looks after great and small, andthere is no use in pouting because we can-not do one certain thing, when there is anyamount of delightful work and play await-ing us. And the young Queen Motherknew THE BAY COLT LEARNSTO MIND THE span of Bays were talking together* in their stalls, and the other Horseswere listening. That was one troublewith living in the barn, you could not sayanything to your next-door neighbor with-out somebody else hearing. The farmerhad solid walls between the stalls, withopenings so far back that no Horse couldget his head to them without breaking hishalter. This had been done to keep themfrom biting each other, and as nobody butthe Dappled Gray ever thought of doingsuch a thing, it was rather hard on therest. It made it difficult for the mothersto bring up their children properly, forafter a Colt was old enough to have a 64 The Bay Colt Learns to Mind 65 stall to himself, his mother had to call outher advice and warnings so loudly thateverybody could hear, and you know it isnot well to reprove a child before com-pany if it can be helped. Indeed, it wasthis very question that was troubling thespan of Bays now. Each of them had at
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