. Nuova : or, The new bee, a story for children of five to fifty . or The New Bee already that, as soon as she was properly cleanand dry, she must join the other active bees, whowere all busy with the different kinds of workthey were doing, and begin work herself. Andshe felt that she knew just what this first workfor her should be. It should be the work of anurse. And the nurse bees cleaning her seemedto take this for granted too. For one of them soonsaid: I think you had better begin on the otherside of the comb; there are enough of us on thisside already. Nuova looked up and down the great
. Nuova : or, The new bee, a story for children of five to fifty . or The New Bee already that, as soon as she was properly cleanand dry, she must join the other active bees, whowere all busy with the different kinds of workthey were doing, and begin work herself. Andshe felt that she knew just what this first workfor her should be. It should be the work of anurse. And the nurse bees cleaning her seemedto take this for granted too. For one of them soonsaid: I think you had better begin on the otherside of the comb; there are enough of us on thisside already. Nuova looked up and down the great comband then to right and left. The nurse noted this,and added: You can get around by going either to thetop or the bottom, or to either end. Nuova thanked her, and decided to crawl downto the bottom, for she could see, far down there,a number of bees moving about industriouslycleaning the floor and some others that stoodstill, apparently on their heads, and kept theirwings buzzing like mad. She was not quite surewhat this performance meant; and the floor-clean-. Industriously cleanincf the floor It - L. ;~*- 7- < vD ^ j JVuovas First Experiences 13 ing, too, seemed a little curious. The fact is that,although bees do seem to know right off aboutthings, they know these things one at a time, asit were; that is, when it is time for them to do athing, they know pretty well, without any tell-ing, how to do it, but they do not seem to knowabout other things at the same time. They seemto know things only as the time comes for eachspecial thing to be done. Nuova seemed to knowthat she should begin working as a nurse, and toknow how to do the work, for as soon as shestarted she did just about as well as any of thenurses, but floor-cleaning, and standing on oneshead and fanning ones wings like mad, were notthings she knew about yet. She worked her way carefully down to thebottom of the comb and found herself in a verybusy place indeed. There was a free place underthis comb and under t
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