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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 



