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John Burroughs

Locusts and Wild Honey

Paperback (Forgotten Books April 23, 2010)
'...The notion has always very generally prevailed that the queen of the bees is an absolute ruler, and issues her royal orders to willing subjects. Hence Napoleon the First sprinkled the symbolic bees over the imperial mantle that bore the arms of his dynasty; and in the country of the Pharaohs the bee was used as the emblem of a people sweetly submissive to the orders of its king. But the fact is, a swarm of bees is an absolute democracy, and kings and despots can find no warrant in their example. The power and authority are entirely vested in the great mass, the workers. They furnish all the brains and foresight of the colony, and administer its affairs. Their word is law, and both king and queen must obey. They regulate the swarming, and give the signal for the swarm to issue from the hive; they select and make ready the tree in the woods and conduct the queen to it.
The peculiar office and sacredness of the queen consists in the fact that she is the mother of the swarm, and the bees love and...'

Table of Contents

CONTENTS ; TUE PASTORAL BEES; SUARP EYES; STRA WBERRl ES •; Is IT GOING TO RAIN 1; SPECKLED TROUT •; BXRDS AND BIRDS; A BED OF BOUGHs; BIRDS'-NESTING •; •; •; THE HALCYOY IN' CANADA

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ISBN
1451015747 / 9781451015744
Pages
258
Weight
14.3 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.59 in.

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