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 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 



