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Soon, however, the little bee's despair yielded to a definite resolve. It was as though she once more called to mind that she was a bee.
"Here I am weeping and wailing," she thought, "as if I had no brains and as if I were a weakling. Oh, I'm not much of an honor to my people and my queen. They are in danger. I am doomed anyhow. So since death is certain one way or another, I may as well be proud and brave and do everything I can to try to save them."