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javelin shall pierce my flesh. If I felt it crawling on me, and 

 then cease to feel it because it is on the clothing and not on the 

 skin, I am in momentary dread as to where it shall turn up 

 next ; and it is a real relief when it stings me, for I know then 

 the precise spot where it is, and have no further expectations 

 from it. 



BEE-VEIL. 



So I seldom go among the bees without a veil. I may not 

 have it over my face, but it is on the hat, ready to be pulled 



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Fig. 76 — Push-Board. 



down at any time. The veil is made of inexpensive material, 

 called by milliners cape-lace or cape-net. It is 21 inches wide. 

 A piece is cut off as long as the circumference of the brim of a 

 straw hat, and both ends sewed together. Shirr a rubber cord 

 in one end of this open bag, thoroughly soak or wash out the 

 starch, and sew the other end on the edge of the hat-brim. It 

 is important for the eyesight that the stuff of the veil be black ; 

 but the black coloring crocks one's clothing. So of late years a 



