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The Bee People. 



Most people who live in the north are 

 familiar with the dark-colored buckwheat 

 honey, and those who live far south 

 know the clear delicate 

 orange-blossom honey. 

 Sometimes bees 

 gather honey from 

 poisonous plants, 

 but that does not 

 happen very 

 often in this 

 country. When 

 you read Xeno- 

 ons "Anabasis," 

 you will learn how 

 Xenophon's whole army 

 were poisoned by eating 

 some honey they found while 

 m yarcning through Asia. <^^^^^^ The Re- 

 treat of the Ten Thous ^ and is a 

 very interesting story, ^^ and I hope 

 you will hurry and get old enough to read 

 the " Anabasis." 



Basswood. 



