. The bee people. Bees. 60 The Bee People. one wing at a time and holding it tightly against her side while she polishes it with her brushes. She spends a great deal of time rubbing her hind legs together, and sometimes she performs the ^difficult acrobatic feat of standing on her two front legs and rubbing the other four together. She looks very cunning as she rubs and scrubs every part of her fuzzy little body; and if you want to see her do it, all you need do is to look. No matter how dirty she may have become, if she is allowed to stand still for a few minutes she will look as if she had o


. The bee people. Bees. 60 The Bee People. one wing at a time and holding it tightly against her side while she polishes it with her brushes. She spends a great deal of time rubbing her hind legs together, and sometimes she performs the ^difficult acrobatic feat of standing on her two front legs and rubbing the other four together. She looks very cunning as she rubs and scrubs every part of her fuzzy little body; and if you want to see her do it, all you need do is to look. No matter how dirty she may have become, if she is allowed to stand still for a few minutes she will look as if she had on a new suit of clothes and had never known what it was to touch a speck of dirt; so effective are her numerous brushes and Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Morley, Margaret Warner, 1858- [from old catalog]. Chicago, A. C. McClurg and company


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