. Outing. andfixed our eyes on the box. Within aminute the bee arose drunkenly and be-gan to zigzag hither and thither. There he goes! I cried. No—here! He aint gone ! Bob was pointing with a quick ! But I couldnt see. I had lost thetiny point against the dark green back-ground of the mountains. 446 THE LURE OF WILD HONEY 447 He went jest over that chestnut, ina line to the ridge, said Bob, indi-cating distant cliffy steeps. I started up, supposing that we wereto follow. But bee-hunting is a patientsport. Hold on, said Bob. Well waittill theyre working better. Sometimesthey tr
. Outing. andfixed our eyes on the box. Within aminute the bee arose drunkenly and be-gan to zigzag hither and thither. There he goes! I cried. No—here! He aint gone ! Bob was pointing with a quick ! But I couldnt see. I had lost thetiny point against the dark green back-ground of the mountains. 446 THE LURE OF WILD HONEY 447 He went jest over that chestnut, ina line to the ridge, said Bob, indi-cating distant cliffy steeps. I started up, supposing that we wereto follow. But bee-hunting is a patientsport. Hold on, said Bob. Well waittill theyre working better. Sometimesthey try to fool you at first; and whenthey get used to coming to the box, theydont circle around so much. was back at the box—Bob said he mustbe our bee—and others quickly followedhim. That tree cant be far away, ex-claimed Bob. It didnt take him notime to get back. No use bothering tomark him, either. Mark him? Sure. Sprinkle a little flour on hisback and youll know him the next timeyou see him, wont you?. AN EYE-TALIAN, HE SAID. LOOK AT THE YELLOW STRIPES ACROSS HIS BACK. Then it will come back? Sure it will—and bring more ofthem. They tell each other. Heraised his voice. Got any, Charlie? Yep, replied Charlie, who hadtaken his box a few rods away. Eye-talian? One line of Eye-talians and one ofnatives. Charlie indicated with ges-tures two almost opposite directions. I suppose that in the world of bees thesudden appearance of two boxes contain-ing honey ready made was a miraculousevent of considerable news value. Atany rate, within two minutes our bee Pretty good sport, I found it, sittingthere watching the box. More and morebees came to it, until at last one or an-other was departing, full laden, at inter-vals of a few seconds. They wereworkin fine, as Bob remarked; and astime passed I caught the knack of follow-ing their flight with the eye. Perhaps itwas, as Bob said, that they were nowflying from the box almost without anypreliminary zigzagging. But it aston-ished me to
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