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ments, as that is offensive to them. One is more likely to be 
stung when perspiring freely, and persons whose perspiration 
has an offensive odor will have more trouble with the bees. 
One who is much with the bees can, if he will, soon come to 
know and avoid the things that are distasteful to them, and to 
perform the operations necessary to bee-keeping with little 
danger of being stung. 
The Joy of It——The nature-lover who does not keep bees is 
missing a good thing. There is a charm about lying in the grass 
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Fia. 4.—Just for the joy of it. 
beside the hive and watching the stream of workers bringing in 
the harvest of honey and pollen at the height of the season, when 
the colony is in a fever of excitement. Then to know something 
of the wonderful system of government, by which the thousands 
of insects composing a colony are able to work together har- 
moniously, with never a shirker among the bevy of toilers, is a 
most interesting study. At times the bee-keeper is seized with a 
desire to see what is going on inside the hive, to visit a colony, 
