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Updated: June 29, 2025
They had killed small things Neewa, his bugs and his frogs and his bumble-bees; Miki, his rabbit they had fought for their lives; they had passed through experiences that, from the beginning, had been a gamble with death; but it had needed the climax of a struggle such as they had seen with their own eyes to open up the doors that gave them a new viewpoint of life.
This was accounted for by the fact that there were no old maids in that polygamous country. Old maids naturally were not allowed! And there being none, there were of course no cats to kill the mice that eat the bumble-bees' nests; thus, no bumble-bees to fertilize it, therefore no clover. Old maids have found their function.
Humming-birds and bumble-bees in the blossoming-time make a dreamy booming among the shadowy sprays.
Starlings mindful of a second brood chattered in the old walnut trees far away on the lawn; thrushes sang their deep-throated bugle-calls; finches twittered. A light breeze creeping up the avenue rustled the full foliage languorously. Ursula Winwood closed her eyes. A bumble-bee droned between visits to foxglove bells near by. She loved bumble-bees.
When he was near enough, he began talking to them in an angry way. "Why, Mr. Jones," Coonie heard one boy say, "you don't use bumble-bees' honey, do you?" "No, boys, I don't use the honey myself, but I don't want you to kill the bees or rob their nests so they will have to starve. Bees do a great deal of good on the farm." "What good are bumble-bees?" one of the boys asked.
He had a trick with a detachable float, made from a quill and a tiny piece of cork, that brought him many a fish from the centre of a mill-pond. He knew the best baits for every season, worms, white grubs, striped minnows, miller's thumbs, bumble-bees, grasshoppers, young field-mice, and he knew where to find them. For it must be confessed that Cotton Mather was a confirmed bait-fisherman.
While the greater part of the kindred of the bees either construct the nests for their young in the manner of our wasps or hornets, building them entirely in the open air, or excavate underground chambers in the fashion of our bumble-bees, our domesticated form at some time in the remote past adopted the plan of choosing for its dwelling-place some chamber in the rocks, or cavity in a hollow tree which could be shaped to the needs of a habitation.
They increased in size and became shrubs and trees and at last they learned how to grow lovely flowers which attracted the attention of the busy big bumble-bees and the birds who carried the seeds far and wide until the whole earth had become covered with green pastures, or lay dark under the shadow of the big trees.
General Bumble is one of the most dashing, brilliant fellows of the day. "I think he is shockingly corpulent," said Colonel Katy-did, not at all pleased to hear him praised, "don't you?" "I don't know but he is a little stout," said Miss Katy; "but so distinguished and elegant in his manners, something martial and breezy about him." "Well, if you invite the Bumble-bees you must have the Hornets."
These burglarious flies are belted and bearded in the very self-same pattern as the bumble-bees themselves; but their larvæ live upon the young grubs of the hive, and repay the unconscious hospitality of the busy workers by devouring the future hope of their unwilling hosts.
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