This warm-hearted partisanship reassures us. We aire able to view the situation a little more clearly, Other solutions suggest thetmselves. May it not be that lees are just beginning to notice that working how's the world over ave shortening, that 10 and 32 hours days are getting archaic and that the man who draws the highest salary spends the least time at his desk? Perhaps the bees have joined the Lady Honey-Makers Union and are organized for shorter hours. After all, the life of the laziest bee, five months, is not a long span and why should we murmur if the greater part o: that time be devoted to enjoyment?
The bees may be learning things incalcdlably worth while about the world they live in during the hours when they are not gathering honey all the day from every opening flower. It is probably etticiency and not idleness which allows them to bang down the covers of their roll-top desks and sally forth betimes with their gol! clubs, as it were, so to speak. may be that the leisurely bee has qwte as important a Iebson to teach us as has her bustling sister. Perhaps it was with definite purpose and penetrating insight that she like idle flowers, Let slip the unregarded hours, Like the wise flowers that lie Unfretted by a feeble thought, Future and past alike forgot, Drinking the dew contentedly In the cool grass.
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