“What does this mean?” I queried of Buzz-Buzz.
“I don’t know. Let’s find Crip. He can tell us.”
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The Swarming Fever
We found him at once. “What does this mean?” I cried.
“It means,” said he, “that, late as the season is, the swarming fever has seized the colony.”
“Why?” we cried.
“Well, we have so much honey and there is so much in the field and the colony so strong, it can easily spare a force of pioneers to begin a new colony. Here is the working out of destiny controlling the very life of the bee.”
Crip spoke enthusiastically, and both Buzz-Buzz and I were fascinated by his story.