AN HONORED QUEEN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 4, 24 January 1907, Page 37

AN HONORED QUEEN

She doesnTfc wear a costly crown, decorated with precious stones, such as most queens are usually supposed to wear (says 'Dumb Animals'). She doesn't sit upon a great throne nor hold a sceptor in her hand. She doesn't drive out on sunny days in a handsome carriage, but surely the .Queen of England herself was not more jealously guarded, more tenderly,- watched over or more carefully shielded and cared for from babyhood; to. maturity than this little Queen. And it is doubtful if Queien Victoria, eyier had more loyal subjects or a more - faithful , retinue of servants to watff upon her than tyis. same little Queen. Indeed.,), it think there are very .few' sovereigns whose subjects are a& loyal and true to them as the busy inmates - Of the hive are to Little Queen Bee. • Little Queen Bee is a very wonderful creature. She manages and controls a whole hive full of many hundreds of busy, buazing, bustling little fellows who never seem to think there is any time in tMs world in which - to be idle, for as soon as the first warm days- of spring come they hasten out from the hive, where they have kept ' themselves ■so closely during the winter months, and' go to "work gathering the honey from the flowers with all . their strength as though it were * the last day they had for getting honjey, instead of there being a whole summer of long "Sunshiny days before them in which..,. to gather their winter store. "'