Provides her food in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Harvest. The economy and diligence of this little republic is admirable. (Pliny, xxx. 11.)
Some copies of the Septuagint add with St. Ambrose, (Hex. v. 1.; Calmet) "or go to the bee, and behold what a worker it is, and how beautiful is its work; whose labours kings and private people use for health. But it is desirable and glorious to all; and though it be weak in strength, by the love of wisdom it has got forward "(Haydock) in esteem. (Calmet)
Nature has given the form of a monarchy in bees, and of a democracy in the regulations of the ant. (Tournemine)
