FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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sons find it convenient to use these boxes and inconvenient 

 to return them, that of late the boxes are not always 

 found in their proper places, and when the picture was 

 taken they were assembled for that special occasion. 



READING BEE-JOURNALS. 



Most of the winter-time, however, is occupied with 

 reading and writing. There are some thirty or forty bee- 

 journals to be read, and a large part of them are printed 

 in the German and French languages. I am a poor 



Fig. 111.—" Bu&y at tJie Typmriter." 



scholar in either German or French, so it is not strange 

 if I sometimes get behind in my reading, to bring up in 

 winter. I wish I could find the time to read over again 

 at my leisure in winter all the bee-journals that I read 

 more or less hurriedly in summer. But T never find the 

 time. I used to think that if I ever lived to be fifty years 

 old I would take things very leisurely. But I am now 

 past fifty, and I never was so crowded in my life before. 



