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FOLLOWING THE BEE LINE 
hive remained on its scaffolding for three weeks dur¬ 
ing which time almost all the “Church” brood had 
hatched and entered the adjoining hive. The trap 
was then taken out and the bees, no longer interested 
in their former homesite as such, entered and robbed 
all their own honey and stored it in their new home. 
I had a fine new colony for my apiary and the 
building was unmarred. 
Later I heard that the mouths of the church 
wardens began to water for the honey supposedly 
left in the church after the bees had been taken. 
They hired a carpenter to open up the partitions 
carefully. . . . But “when they got there, the 
cupboard was bare!” 
The combs were duly found—but empty! 
