Chapter Four

              They find her and her sisters living in a bright pink house with bee hives and a garage of honey-making supplies. Lily lies to the sisters, August, May, and June, and says that her mom died in a car accident and her father died in a tractor accident. She tells her that she and Rosaleen are on their way to find an aunt of Lily's in Richmond. Lily suspects that August knows she is lying, but the sisters let Rosaleen and Lily stay in the honey garage.
              Lily realizes that she is a little prejudice herself, and this surprises her. While exploring the yard she comes across a low stone wall with many pieces of paper stuck in between the rocks. She pulls one out and it reads, Birmingham, Sep 15, four little angels dead. Lily continues her exploration and finds a little reiver in the woods behind the house.

Honeybees are social insects and live in colonies. Each solony is a family unit, comprising a single, egg-laying female or queen and her many sterile daughters called workers. The workers cooperate

in the food-gathering, nest-building and rearing the offspring. Males are reared only at the times of year when their presence is required.

- Bees of the World