The Bee-Master of Warrilow
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Edwardes Tickner. The Bee-Master of Warrilow
The Bee-Master of Warrilow
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. THE BEE-MASTER OF WARRILOW
CHAPTER II. FEBRUARY AMONGST THE HIVES
CHAPTER III. A TWENTIETH CENTURY BEE-FARMER
CHAPTER IV. CHLOE AMONG THE BEES
CHAPTER V. A BEE-MAN OF THE ’FORTIES
CHAPTER VI. HEREDITY IN THE BEE-GARDEN
CHAPTER VII. NIGHT ON A HONEY-FARM
CHAPTER VIII. IN A BEE-CAMP
CHAPTER IX. THE BEE-HUNTERS
CHAPTER X. THE PHYSICIAN IN THE HIVE
CHAPTER XI. WINTER WORK ON THE BEE-FARM
CHAPTER XII. THE QUEEN BEE: IN ROMANCE AND REALITY
CHAPTER XIII. THE SONG OF THE HIVES
CHAPTER XIV. CONCERNING HONEY
The Bee as a Chemist
The True Purpose of the Hive
CHAPTER XV. IN THE ABBOT’S BEE-GARDEN
CHAPTER XVI. BEES AND THEIR MASTERS
CHAPTER XVII. THE HONEY THIEVES
CHAPTER XVIII. THE STORY OF THE SWARM
CHAPTER XIX. THE MIND IN THE HIVE
CHAPTER XX. THE KING’S BEE-MASTER
CHAPTER XXI. POLLEN AND THE BEE
CHAPTER XXII. THE HONEY-FLOW
CHAPTER XXIII. SUMMER LIFE IN A BEE-HIVE
CHAPTER XXIV. THE YELLOW PERIL IN HIVELAND
CHAPTER XXV. THE UNBUSY BEE
An Officious Dame
The Perils of “Immunity”
CHAPTER XXVI. THE LONG NIGHT IN THE HIVE
Restlessness, and the Reason for It
The Queen a Slave to Tradition
The Future Evolution of the Hive
Hibernation, and no Honey
CHAPTER XXVII. THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BEE-GARDEN
CHAPTER XXVIII. HONEY-CRAFT OLD AND NEW
The Water-carriers
The Old Style and the New
CHAPTER XXIX. THE BEE-MILK MYSTERY
CHAPTER XXX. THE BEE-BURNERS
CHAPTER XXXI. EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN HIVE
A New English Classic
THE LORE. OF THE HONEY-BEE
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Tickner Edwardes
Published by Good Press, 2021
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As he spoke I became rather unpleasantly aware of a change of manners on the part of his winged people. First one and then another came harping round, and, settling comfortably on my face, showed no inclination to move again. In my ignorance I was for brushing them off, but the bee-master came hurriedly to my rescue. He dislodged them with a few gentle puffs from his tobacco-pipe.
“That is always their way in the spring-time,” he explained. “The warmth of the skin attracts them, and the best thing to do is to take no notice. If you had knocked them off you would probably have been stung.”
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