The book of nature myths . hat give us honey, it wouldbe easier to get our food. So the workersflew away, but the lazy people played anddanced as they had done before while theirfriends were near, for they thought, Oh,they will come back and bring us somehoney. THE BEES AND THE FLIES. 95 By and by the cold came, but the lazypeople had nothing to eat, and the workers did not come with food. The manito had said tothem, Dear little work-ers, you shall no longerwalk from flower to will give you wings, andyou shall be bees. When-ever men hear a gentlehumming, they will say,* Those are the
The book of nature myths . hat give us honey, it wouldbe easier to get our food. So the workersflew away, but the lazy people played anddanced as they had done before while theirfriends were near, for they thought, Oh,they will come back and bring us somehoney. THE BEES AND THE FLIES. 95 By and by the cold came, but the lazypeople had nothing to eat, and the workers did not come with food. The manito had said tothem, Dear little work-ers, you shall no longerwalk from flower to will give you wings, andyou shall be bees. When-ever men hear a gentlehumming, they will say,* Those are the busy bees,and their wings were giventhem because they werewise and good. To the other tribe themanito said, You shall beflies, and you, too, shallhave wings; but while the workers fly fromflower to flower and eat the yellow honey,you shall have for your food only what hasbeen thrown away. When men hear yourbuzzing, they will say, * It is good that theflies have wings, because we can drive themaway from us the more 96 THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS. THE STORY OF THE FIRST MOLES. A RICH man and a poor man once owneda field together. The rich man owned thenorthern half, and the poor man ownedthe southern half. Each man sowed hisground with seed. The warm days came,the gentle rain fell, and the seed in thepoor mans half of the field sprang up andput forth leaves. The seed in the rich manshalf all died in the ground. The rich man was selfish and said, The southern half of the fieldis mine, but the poor man replied, No,the southern half is mine, for that is whereI sowed my seed. The rich man had a son who was aswicked as himself. This boy whispered, Father, tell him to come in the know how we can keep the land. Sothe rich man said, Come in the morning,and we shall soon see whose land this is. At night the rich man and his son pulledup some bushes that grew beside the field. THE FIEST MOLES. 97 and the son hid in the hole where theirroots had been. Morning came
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