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nail-box I saw at a tin-shop. \\'hen a box is taken from 

 its nail on the wall, laid flat and slightly shaken, the nails 

 are easily picked up from the shallow part of the box. 



Truth compels me to say that so many different per- 

 sons find it convenient to use these boxes and inconve- 

 nient to return them, that of late the boxes are not always 

 found in their proper places, and when the picture was 

 taken they were assembled for that special occasion. 



"^ Fig. III. — "Busy of the Typen'riter." 

 READING BEE-TOURXALS. 



]\Iost of the winter-time, however, is occupied with 

 reading and writing. There are some thirty or forty bee- 

 journals to be read, and a large part of them are printed 

 in the Gern:an and French languages. I am a poor 

 scholar in either German or French, so it is not strange 

 if I sometimes get behind in my reading, to bring up in 

 V. inter. I wish I could find the time to read ever again 

 at my leisure in winter all the bee-journals that I read 

 more or less hurriedly in summer. But I never find the 

 tim.e. I used to think that if I ever lived to be fifty years 



