How She Hears and Smells. 71 
All who love bees ought to know and 
love Huber, for he spent many, many 
years studying the bees and finding out 
wonderful things about them. 
I think you will like to hear his story. 
When only a boy he was very fond of 
nature, and very fond of study. He read so 
constantly that he ruined his eyes and when 
still a young man became blind. This did 
not stop his work, however, for he had two 
friends who were eyes for him. One was 
the young lady to whom he was engaged 
to be married. When he became blind, her 
friends tried to persuade her to leave him, 
but she would not. 
She insisted upon marrying him and tak- 
ing care of him. Huber and his wife lived 
in happiness for a great many years, and 
Huber said that he did not realize he was 
blind until his wife died. 
Huber’s other friend was a man named 
Francis Burnens. Huber would tell Burnens 
just how to perform an experiment and just 
