a-p-i-a-r-y

Updated: May 21, 2025

It was the summer following that in which Jem and I had tried to see how badly we could behave; this uncivilized phase had abated: Jem used to ride about a great deal with my father, and I had become intimate with Isaac Irvine. "You know what an Apiary is, Isaac?" said I. "A what, sir?" "An A-P-I-A-R-Y." "To be sure, sir, to be sure," said Isaac.

Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - We and the World, Part I: A Book for Boys