A beautiful thing in nature is a piece of comb honey with its snowy whiteness and its burden of sweetness. Aside from its whiteness and sweetness, the marvelous structure of the the comb compels our admiration. The wall of its cell are so thin that from 2,000 to 3.000 of them must be laid one upon another to make an inch in thickness, each wall so fragile as to crumble at a touch, and yet so constructed that tons of honey stored in them are transported in safety thousands of miles.

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