Excerpt from The Lore of the Honey-Bee The story is variously rendered by ancier writers. Some say that bees already existed i the world, and that Amalthea was only a goa whose milk served to nourish the baby-god, i addition to the honey that Melissa obtained fror the wild bees in the cave where Jupiter lay hiddet Another account has it that the bees thems'elvc were drawn to his place of concealment by tl'. Noise made by his nurses, who beat continual. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.