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Disguise

Once upon a time there was a bee who discovered that wasps did not know how to make honey. He thought he would go and tell them, but a wise bee said to him: "Wasps do not like bees, and they would not listen to you if you approached them directly, since they are convinced--through age-old conviction--that bees are opposed to wasps."

The bee thought about the problem for a long time, and then realized that if he covered him self with yellow pollen he would look so much like a wasp that they would accept him as one of them.

Now, representing himself as a wasp who had made a great discovery, the bee started to teach the wasps honey-making. The wasps were delighted, and worked well and hard under his direction.

Then there was pause for rest, and the wasps noticed that in the heat of the activity, the disguise had completely worn off the bee, and they recognized him.

With one accord, they fell on him and stung him to death as an interloper and ancient enemy: and, of course, all the half-made honey was abandoned... for was it not the work of an alien?

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