Longfellow and His Bees

                  Here is a simple arithmetical puzzles set by Longfellow in his own flowery, poetical language.

                  If one – fifth of a hive of bees flew to the badamba flower, one –third flew to the slandbara, three times the difference of these two numbers flew to an arbor, and one bee continued to fly about, attracted on each side by the fragrant Ketaki and Malai, what was the total number of bees?

Answer:    The number of bees was 15