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19 - Bobbsey Twins at Cloverbank by Laura Lee Hope · Bobbsey Twins at Cloverbank

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  Speaker 1: Abrivox dot Org. The Bobsey Twins at Cloverbank by Laura
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  Speaker 1: Lee Hope Hiving the Bees. Bert Bobbsey did not understand
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  Speaker 1: what Sam Porter's excitement was all about, but he could
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  Speaker 1: tell by the way Sam acted and by the way
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  Speaker 1: he called, that it was something serious. So he dropped
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  Speaker 1: his fish and his pole and made ready to follow
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  Speaker 1: his new chum. Come on, come on, called Sam, peering
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  Speaker 1: out from his shelter in the bushes as he saw
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  Speaker 1: that Bert was not hurrying as much as he might.
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  Speaker 1: Run for it. If you don't want to get stung. Stung,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed Bert yep, answered the country lad, don't you see
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  Speaker 1: that's a bunch of bees with the Queen Bee in
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  Speaker 1: the middle, and they're looking for a place to settle
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  Speaker 1: so they can start a new home. I only hope
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  Speaker 1: they don't light on this bush, he added, as Bert
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  Speaker 1: crawled in the shelter with him. If they do, oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: look out for yourself. The best thing to do will
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  Speaker 1: be to leg it for the creek and jump in.
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  Speaker 1: Just let you know, stick out, that's all. I hope
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  Speaker 1: they don't decide to settle here where we are. But
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  Speaker 1: the swarm of humming busy little insects following their queen
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  Speaker 1: suddenly turned and made for a tree not far away.
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  Speaker 1: There the bees clustered in a bunch on one of
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  Speaker 1: the low branches. That's good, cried Sam. Mister Watson can
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  Speaker 1: easily get them from there. Come on, we'll go tell him.
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  Speaker 1: The boys picked up their fish and their poles, and
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  Speaker 1: soon they were at Cloverbank. Oh what a fine lot
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  Speaker 1: of fish, exclaimed Missus Bobbsey as she saw the two
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  Speaker 1: boys with their strings. Yes, they're good fish, Bird said,
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  Speaker 1: but will you take them? Please? Nan, I have to
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  Speaker 1: go with Sam and tell mister Watson about his swarm
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  Speaker 1: of bees. What's this about the bees, Missus Bobbsey wanted
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  Speaker 1: to know. The boys taking turns, quickly told her, and
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  Speaker 1: Bert added, I'm going to watch mister Watson catch them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so am, I cried Freddie. Nan hurried back to
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  Speaker 1: the farmhouse where the two strings fish, which were to
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  Speaker 1: be put in the cool cellar until needed. Sam said
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  Speaker 1: he would be back and get his after the bees
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  Speaker 1: were caught. So some of my bees got away, did, they?
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  Speaker 1: Asked mister Watson. When he had been told the news,
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  Speaker 1: he was about to set out for another of his
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  Speaker 1: orchards where peaches were being picked, but when he heard
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  Speaker 1: about his honeymakers, he decided to postpone his orchard trip.
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  Speaker 1: Followed by the Bobbsey twins, their mother and Sam, mister
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  Speaker 1: Watson hurried to the little valley where he kept about
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  Speaker 1: a hundred hives of bees. Like little dog houses, the
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  Speaker 1: hives were only with flat instead of peaked roofs, and
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  Speaker 1: of course only a small slit was kneaded in the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of each hive house to let the bees fly
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  Speaker 1: in and out. The hives stood and rose in an
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  Speaker 1: orchard of apple trees near a small garden. There was
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  Speaker 1: a farm house in this valley, in which lived a
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  Speaker 1: man and his wife who looked after the bees. I
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  Speaker 1: had three swarms out today, called Jason Stern, the bee keeper,
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  Speaker 1: to mister Watson when he later arrived. I couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: them all. One got away. I know where it is,
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  Speaker 1: the peach grower answered. Burt and Sam saw the swarm
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  Speaker 1: alight when they were coming back from fishing. I'll take
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  Speaker 1: an empty hive on the small hand cart and bring
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  Speaker 1: them back. You'd better come along to help, that is,
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  Speaker 1: if you have the other swarms safe. Yes, they're all right.
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  Speaker 1: Except the one that got away, said Mistress turn. While
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  Speaker 1: the Bobsey twins watched, mister Watson and the bee keeper
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  Speaker 1: put rubber gloves on their hands and on their heads
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  Speaker 1: big straw hats, the brim of which held the mosquito
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  Speaker 1: netting veil away from their faces so no bee could
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  Speaker 1: get near them. They also tied down the legs of
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  Speaker 1: their trousers, for sometimes a bee or two will crawl
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  Speaker 1: up your pants, and it isn't very pleasant, said Jason
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  Speaker 1: Stern with a laugh. Then a two wheeled cart with
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  Speaker 1: a flat wooden platform was brought out of the barn
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  Speaker 1: and the party set off. They presently came in view
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  Speaker 1: of the tree on which the swarm had alighted. The
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  Speaker 1: cluster of bees was like a big football, and somewhat
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  Speaker 1: similar in shape. A low buzzing sound could be heard better.
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  Speaker 1: Not coming in closer with the children, advised the farmer
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  Speaker 1: to missus Bobbsey, a stray beer or two might sting them.
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  Speaker 1: You can watch Jason and me from here. The mother
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  Speaker 1: of the twins, and in fact the twins themselves as
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  Speaker 1: well as Sam did not care to go too near,
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  Speaker 1: so they sat down on a grassy hillock while the
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  Speaker 1: two men wheeled the cart close under the tree, and
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  Speaker 1: the cart was an empty bee hive, one of many
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  Speaker 1: kept ready for just such occasions as this. Also, mister
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  Speaker 1: Stern had brought with them a smoker, which was something
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  Speaker 1: like a tin funnel with the little leather bellows beneath it.
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  Speaker 1: When this bellows was pumped, clouds of smoke were sent
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  Speaker 1: out of the small end of the funnel, directed against
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  Speaker 1: the swarm of bees. The smoke quieted them so they
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  Speaker 1: would not sting those who handled them. The cart, with
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  Speaker 1: the open empty hive on it, was wheeled up until
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  Speaker 1: it was directly under the branch on which hung the
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  Speaker 1: clustering bees around their queen. You hold the cart steady now,
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  Speaker 1: Jason directed mister Watson, and I'll climb up in the
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  Speaker 1: tree and jar them off as soon as most of
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  Speaker 1: them are inside the hid. I've clapped the cover on,
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  Speaker 1: all right, was the answer. I wonder what would happen,
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  Speaker 1: said Bert, if the cluster of bees and their queen
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  Speaker 1: should fall on mister Stearn's head instead of in the
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  Speaker 1: empty hive. It wouldn't be very pleasant, his mother answered, though,
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  Speaker 1: I guess with the veils the men won't get stung.
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  Speaker 1: But watch now, children, and see them hide the runaway bees. Jason,
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  Speaker 1: are you already down there? Called mister Watson to his
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  Speaker 1: be man, When the farmer himself was up in the tree.
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  Speaker 1: All ready was the answer, shake him down. End of
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  Speaker 1: Chapter nineteen.