You see the young lady bees are just as inexperienced as a schoolgirl.

They get lost in the flowers, and are often so overtaken and reckless, that the night finds them far from the hive, heavy with pollen and chilled with cold.

Sometimes father would lift one of these imprudent young things, carry it home, and try to get it admitted.

He never could manage it.

The lady bees acted just as women are apt to do when other women GO where they don't go, or DO as they don't do." "But this is interesting," said Ruth.