What do you suppose? A bee sat on my nose. Then what do you think? He gave me a wink And said, "I beg your pardon, I thought you were the garden."

This is a light, rhyming piece of children’s verse built around comic misrecognition: the bee mistakes a person’s nose for a flowerbed and then offers a mock-polite apology. The humor depends on anthropomorphism (the bee can “wink” and speak) and on the absurd leap from “nose” to “garden,” which invites a child’s delight in surprise and sound. Read more broadly, it plays with the idea that perception is fallible and that social niceties (“I beg your pardon”) can be applied even in silly, impossible situations—turning a minor “offense” into a friendly joke.