72 The Bee People. 
what to look for, and Burnens would do 
exactly as he was told, and then tell Huber 
all about it. In this way, Burnens did the 
seeing and Huber the thinking. Burnens 
was very patient and careful, and once he 
spent eleven days, scarcely stopping to sleep, 
in examining every bee in two hives. 
Think what a task that was! I believe 
he drenched the bees with water so they 
would not sting, and then examined them 
one by one. It was owing to the careful 
work of Burnens that Huber was able to 
make a number of important discoveries 
about bees. 
A good many of the interesting facts we 
know to-day about bees we owe to blind 
Huber. He invented a hive which opened 
like the leaves of a book, so that he could 
at any time see what was going on inside, 
— or rather Burnens could see and tell him. 
People to-day sometimes use narrow hives 
with glass sides, so that everything the bees 
do can be watched. Some schools have 
