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people who used either of them, but his bees killed 

 him at last. It was done this way. He was getting 

 very old, and, like some elderly people, he was 

 rather addicted to keeping his mouth open. He 

 went out unveiled and ungloved as usual to take a 

 swarm. He shook them down into the skep, but 



Fig. 12. 



one bee entered his opened mouth, and stung him in 

 the windpipe. He was dead in a very few minutes, 

 and long before the arrival of a doctor. This could 

 not possibly have happened if he had used a veil. 

 Fig. 12 shews a number of appliances which cannot 



