THE BEE-HIVE.
One of the drollest of all of Rollo’s experiments was his plan for getting a bee-hive.
One day, he was in the garden with a playmate of his, named Henry, who lived not very far from his father’s house.
In the back part of the garden were some tall hollyhocks growing. They were in full flower. Hollyhocks are very tall. They grow up in a straight stem, as high as a man’s head, with leaves and flowers from top to bottom.
The flowers are large, and shaped somewhat like a cup, or rather a wine-glass, and bees often go into them to get honey.
Now it happened that as Rollo and Henry were sauntering about, near these hollyhocks, Rollo happened to see a bee in one of the flowers, loading himself up with wax or honey. The flower, that the bee was in, was just about as high as Rollo’s head.
“O, there’s a bee!” said Rollo; “let’s catch him.”
“Catch him!” said Henry. “If you do, you’ll catch a sting, I rather think.”