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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
Wax scraps should now be run down into block, 
as explained at page 589 et seq. 
November. 
The bees have now retired into winter quarters, 
and, aided by a thoughtful and skilful master, they, 
shoulder to shoulder, will keep the cold at bay, while 
they moisten their candy or sip their honey beneath 
their chaff dome, requiring only nominal attention, as 
they wait the return of the sun to once more warm 
the earth, and bring into being a new carpet of 
flowers. 
December. 
The bee-keeper has himself retired into winter 
quarters ; if he be wise, not only to wait, but to 
reflect, plan, and prepare, so that the studies and 
observations of the past may be the seed-corn of a 
greater harvest of success in seasons yet to come. 
If the preceding pages should aid in securing so desir- 
able a result, the object of the Author will be so far 
attained : but he would feel, with the reader, that 
each step taken is mainly to be valued because it 
enables us to make another advance ; for the hope of 
progress should be the charm of every effort, in little 
as in greater things, transforming the dead routine 
of mere existence into the elasticity of abounding 
life. He would therefore say : — 
Let us, then, be up and doing, 
AVith a heart for any fate ; 
Still achieving, still pursuing, 
Learn to labour and to wait. 
