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those that contain brood, for in trying- to ^et away from 

 the Ught she will go onto the outside combs. 





Fig. 19. — Sive-Seat with Hand-Holes. 



This trying- to get a-way from the light on the part of 

 the queen, by going from one comb to the other, makes 

 me go over the combs as rapidly as possible -without look- 

 ing too closely, for if I do not see her -with a slight look- 

 ing, the chances are that she is on another comb, and I 

 count it better to run the chance of going over the combs 

 again, rather than to go too slowly. For if one goes over 

 the combs slowly enough, it is a pretty safe thing to say 

 that the queen will be driven clear to the other side of 

 the hive. 



My assistant, however, who is an exoert at finding 

 queens, holds a different theory, and as a consequence 



