“Now,” said the bee, “I shall leave you; but before I go let me advise you, as a friend, not to quit the garden to-day; there are plenty of flowers, and plenty of opportunities for you to meet with ‘Experience,’ without flying over any of the four walls.”
“Who is Experience?” asked Buz and Hum together.
“Oh! somebody to whom you are going to be introduced, who will teach you more in a day than you could learn from me in a week. Good-bye.”
So saying, she disappeared into the hive.
“Isn’t it too delightful?” exclaimed Buz to Hum. “Flying! why it’s even more fun that I thought!”
“It is,” said Hum; “but I should like to get some honey at once.”
“Of course,” replied Buz, “only I should like to fly a long way to get it.”
“I want to fill a cell quickly,” said Hum.
“Oh, yes, to be sure! What a delightful thing it will be to put one’s proboscis down into every flower and see what’s there! Do you know,” added Buz, putting out her proboscis, “I feel as if I could suck honey tremendously; don’t you?”