WHY KEEP BEES 15 



inside of a beehive looked like and no 

 idea about bees themselves except that 

 they would sting, as he supposed, at the 

 slightest provocation. 



I supplied him with a bee-veil and gave 

 him my assurance that he would not be 

 stung. He has considerable respect for 

 my veracity, and against his natural fear 

 of the business end of the insects we went 

 to work. His part of the job consisted in 

 holding up brood frames covered with 

 bees, so that I could bring the camera to 

 bear upon them. I, of course, did all the 

 work of extracting the frames from the 

 hive and returning them to their places 

 after we were through. When the ordeal 

 was over my friend drew a deep breath 

 and said, "Well, if any one had told me 

 that you could handle bees as roughly as 

 we handled them and not be stung to 

 death, I would have said he was a liar by 

 the clock." 



As a matter of fact, we had not handled 

 them roughly at all — quite the contrary, 



