I have a taste does credit to me; I never eat bread and such fiddle-dee-dee. For honey and pollen’s the sensible food; They favor digestion and suit the mood. [Illustration: [Bee]] I sleep in my nest all winter long, But rush fearlessly forth in the March wind’s song, For I’m sure there’s some one waiting for me, Since a hyacinth blue’s in love with this bee! [Illustration: STORIES ABOUT ALL SORTS OF THINGS] STORIES ABOUT ALL SORTS OF THINGS NECTAR GUIDES. The bee is always in a hurry. She flies from flower to flower as fast as she can. [Illustration: [Flower]] She sees the flowers far off and comes straight to them, choosing the brightest. She has learned that the bright flowers hold much honey and often have guides to the nectary, so that she does not have to hunt about, but, alighting on a flower, follows the bright guide. Sometimes it is a spot in front of the nectary and sometimes a line leading to it. It leads her at once by the shortest path to the nectar, and since she is in such haste, the nectar guides are her good friends, helping her to save time. CELLS. [Illustration: [Cells]] [Illustration: [Cells]] Cells are a matter of importance. To be sure there are cells and cells, and some are much more important than others. For instance, there are prison cells, more’s the pity, and anther cells and honeycomb cells and ovary cells and many more like them. All these are small, hollow spaces with walls around them. But there is another kind of cell, more important than all these others put together, and they are not hollow and do not always have a wall. Perhaps you are not very much interested in cells, but you had better be in these we are going to talk about, for they have a great deal to do with football games and dancing and going to parties and picnics. In fact, without them there could be no football and no dancing and no parties nor picnics. All these things depend upon cells. So we may as well begin at once to find out what they are. These cells that we are going to talk about are alive. They are made of protoplasm. You do not know what protoplasm is? I can tell you it is time you did then, for if it had not been for protoplasm you would not be in the land of the living. The protoplasm made you; so if you are not interested in it, _I_ think you ought to have been a cabbage or a squash or a liriodendron or some other thoughtless vegetable not expected to be interested in protoplasm.