The Honey-Makers

Half natural history, half literature: how the honey-bee actually works — tongue, wings, sting, swarm — and then three thousand years of what people have believed about her, from the Vedas to mead.

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Danube, 93: Honey-meats

Honey and the moon, 225, 226, 231, Index Honey and marriage, 227, 251.

Appendix.) (See shown for, 234; bestows beauty, Honey in India, collected as tax, 234; penalty for stealing, 234; honeygatherers to-day, 365. Honey-meats, 202.

Honeymoon, 345.

Honey-mouth, 83. 345- Honey, as first fruits, 260; as food, 204, 222, 230, 273, 298, 299 (see Appendix); as medicine, 84, 85, 87, 191, 251, 252, 309; as offering to the dead, 277; as offering to the gods, 252; as a sacrifice, 268, 279; as a term of endearment, 281, 282.

Honey-bear, 169.

Honey-cakes, 278, 304, 306, 307, 374.

Honey-cakes of Nuremberg, 203.

Honey-comb, drone-cells, 121; honeycells, 121, 142, 366; irregularity of cells, 146; worker-cells, 121; large combs, 188, 381; melting of comb, 166, 167.

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