Among these are the bumblebees, mason-bees, carpenter-bees, and leaf-cutters.

But woe to the black bumblebees discovered in their mossy nests in the ground!

The ground, frozen solid all the year, thaws out for a foot or two on the surface during the warm months, and here and there were scattered wild flowers; spring beauties, purple primroses, yellow anemone, and saxifrages bloomed in beauty, and wild honey-bees, gay bumblebees, and fat mosquitoes buzzed and hummed everywhere.

A meadow lark sprang up with a song in the adjoining field, a few heavy old bumblebees droned in the clover as we cut it, and once a frightened rabbit ran out, darting swiftly under the orchard fence.

Little brook, sing to me; Sing about the bumblebee That tumbled from a lily bell and grumbled mumblingly, Because he wet the film Of his wings, and had to swim, While the water bugs raced round and laughed at him.

The bees were so delighted with this news that they could not keep it to themselves but must go and tell their cousins, the wasps and hornets, and even bumblebees.

"When the appointed time arrived the bees were on handand so were the wasps, hornets, and bumblebees.

THE GREAT BUMBLEBEE

The earth was bursting with green; the early flowers were turning the sunny slopes into coloured splashes of red and white and purple, and everything that had life was singingthe fat whistlers on their rocks, the pompous little gophers on their mounds, the big bumblebees that buzzed from flower to flower, the hawks in the valley, and the eagles over the peaks.

An interesting variation of the day came about whenever the mower found a bumblebees' nest.

Everybody is to represent something in a June day, and the childrentrustees' and managers' children, you knoware going to be butterflies and bumblebees.

" Grandfather's "summer sweets" are ripe, Out on the gnarled, old tree Out where the robin redbreasts pipe, And buzzes the bumblebee; Swinging high on the bending bough, Scenting the lazy breeze, What is the gods' ambrosia now To apples of gold like these?

As I did so my attention was attracted by a curious humming overhead, like a million bumblebees.

"The honeybags steal from the bumblebees, And for night tapers crop their waxen thighs.

We were bitten by huge horse-flies, the size of bumblebees.

PLATH, AURELIA S. Bumblebees and their ways.

PLATH, OTTO EMIL. Bumblebees and their ways.

Bumblebees and their ways.

The flight of the bumblebee.

PLATH, AURELIA S. Bumblebees and their ways.

PLATH, OTTO EMIL. Bumblebees and their ways.

Bumblebees and their ways.

"Another time the small Edison boy was investigating a bumblebee's nest in a field close to the fence.

South winds jostle them, Bumblebees come, Hover, hesitate, Drink, and are gone.

he broke out impetuously, making a furious slap at his face; "the poet doesn't say that the Lotus Eaters were eaten up themselves by such cursed mosquitoes as these, and they're sufficient evidence that we're in Kamchatkathey don't grow as big as bumblebees in any other country!"