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Updated: June 2, 2025
And after that you may sleep until the trumpeter wakes you at dawn." The Queen's announcement did not please the honey-makers in the least. They were an ill-tempered lot, anyhow. And when things did not go to suit them they sometimes made themselves most disagreeable. Of course they didn't dare grumble in the Queen's hearing. But behind her back they spoke their minds quite freely.
"I was joking," he said. "Well, I didn't make much of a mistake; for joking and choking sound about the same," Buster Bumblebee replied. "I hope your mother's honey-makers can tell the difference," Freddie Firefly grumbled. "If they can't, I certainly don't care to spend a night in their company." "Oh, you won't have any trouble with them.
Keeping his eye upon the passing bees, he follows them until he reaches the tree in which the nest is found. There are five varieties of bees in Ceylon; these are all honey-makers, except the carpenter bee. This species is entirely unlike a bee in all its habits. It is a bright tinsel-green color, and the size of a large walnut, but shaped like the humble bees of England.
They'll be working so busily that they'll hardly notice you," Buster Bumblebee assured him. So Freddie Firefly promised to be at the house of the Bumblebee family, in the meadow, at dusk. And he said he would try to bring plenty of his relations with him, so that there might be one of them to light the way for each of the honey-makers.
And although everybody said that Buster Bumblebee was a drone, he never seemed to mind it in the least. If the summers in Pleasant Valley had been longer perhaps the honey-makers in Buster Bumblebee's home would have taken a holiday now and then. But they knew that every day that passed brought cold weather that much the nearer. So they never once stopped working except to sleep at night.
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