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D ID you ever see a hive of bees? Are you afraid of bees? Do not be afraid of them. They do not often sting those who let them alone. There are some people whom bees never sting.
Do you see how small the bees are? Do they not move very quickly? Are not their cells very small?
Now I will tell you a strange thing. The man who knew most about bees was a blind man! His name was Huber. He lost his sight when he was a boy. He liked to study. Most of all, he liked to study bees.
When he was a boy, he had a friend. She was a kind girl. She, too, loved to study. When she grew up, she became Huber's wife.
Huber was not poor. He had a happy home of his own. He had a man to live with him and wait on him. Huber, and his wife, and the man, would go and sit by the bee-hive. The wife read to Huber all the books that had then been made about bees. Then they would watch the bees, to see if they did the things that were told in books.
When they saw the bees do other things, not noted in books, they told Huber. Then they caught bees, and studied the parts of their bodies. Ask your teacher what kind of a glass they used to see the bee with.
The wife and the man told Huber all that they saw done by the bees. He thought it all over. They watched the bees, year after year.
Huber worked fifteen years. Then he made a great book on bees. He told his wife what to write.
He lived to be very old.
It is both from books, and by your own eyes and thought, that you may learn these things. You must watch if you would know. Give time and work to this study.