never-to-be-despised

Updated: July 7, 2025

Interest in bee-culture grows; and some of the habits of the insect came to be understood and, inevitably, admired, the while all convenient vessels available, even to the never-to-be-despised kerosene tins, were utilised to store the nectar garnered from myriads of blossoms. But as time passed the fair prospects faded. Less and less quantities of honey were stored.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber