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millers cannot get on them, or a second smoking may 
be necessary. 
AMUSEMENTS WITH BEES. 
Various amusing feats may be performed by obtain- 
ing a queen of a colony. Take fine wire cloth and 
form it into a small queen-cage ; confine the queen in 
this cage, and pin it to your whiskers, and the whole 
swarm will soon cluster around the queen. Or the 
queen may be secured in a hat or cap, upon which the 
bees will quietly cluster. 
If the bees are thoroughly subdued, they may even 
be taken in the mouth, and they will not sting if the 
performer will hold his breath, and guard against press- 
ing them. Should he be stung, swelling may be pre- 
vented by occasionally taking a piece of carbonate am- 
monia, about the size of a pea; by so doing the system 
will become charged with counteracting medicine. 
Black bees may be shaken over an astonished crowd 
without a sting being inflicted, if the bees are tho- 
roughly subdued with smoke, and the combs from 
which they are dislodged are old and securely attached 
to frames. Any person can perform this feat by ob- 
serving the directions given for handling bees and in 
the foregoing remarks, without the use of “bee charms,” 
or any other drug. 
