Bees

are not really interested in people...

only in flowers.
They make honey out of them.

Sometimes
people look like flowers,

or smell like flowers.

then a bee might think they were flowers,
and try to make honey out of them.

If you flap about,
the bee will think a storm has begun,
with a wild wind blowing.
And it will hold on tight.

If you don't flap about,
the bee will quickly find
it has made a mistake.
And it will fly away.

Bees are too busy to stay on people.
They want to do nothing all day long,
but make honey.

Really they make it for themselves.
But sometimes people take it away from them
and put it in jars,

and other people

eat it.

© Leila Berg, sample illustrations © Lisa Kopper, pub Methuen 1983
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