and I invariably found that the colour was most delicately diffused by the bees-as delicately as a painter could have done it with his brush-by atoms of the coloured wax having been taken from the spot on which it had been placed, and worked into the growing edges of the cells all round.
eta hutsik gabe aurkitu nuen erleek kolorea fin-fin zabaltzen zutela-pintatzaile batek bere pintzelaz bezain fin-, koloreztaturiko argizari-zatitxoak zeuden lekutik hartu eta inguruko gelasken hegal hazkorretan haiekin lan eginez.