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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Well, we've got to move them from the skep into the new hive tonight somehow," said my sister, "and you've got to help." "Oh, I'Il help right enough." "What'll you do?" "I'Il go up the road and send the traffic round by West Hanger. We don't want to be hauled up for manslaughter." Daphne turned to Berry. "He'd better hold the skep, I think," she said simply. "Yes," said her husband.
Macfadyen. If he met the bairns coming from school, the Glen rang with the foolery. When Willie Harley broke his leg, Carmichael brought his dog Jackie I could tell things of that dog and devised dramatic entertainments of such attraction that Jamie Soutar declared them no better than the theatre, and threatened Carmichael with a skep of honey as a mark of his indignation.
"Or keep the new hive steady while we shake the bees out of the skep into it. We've only got two veils, but he won't want one for that." "Of course not," said I with a bitter laugh. "In fact, I think I'd better wear a zephyr and running shorts. I shall be able to move with more freedom." "Ah, no," said Berry. "You must keep the trunk covered.
When they had crunched up the last morsel they tore the skep in pieces, and for hours afterwards they were happily employed in licking themselves clean. That night he slept near their lair, but they left him and went hunting. In the morning when he woke he was quite numb with cold, and faint with hunger. A white mist hung over everything and the wood smelt of autumn.
"Hanging down'ards, my lad, with my hind legs tied in a knot round a big bough; and I keep on trying to get hold of you by the scruff, but I can't quite reach." "Why, that's a-hinging like the bees used to do outside my old mother's skep. Well, you mustn't let go, my lad, else down you come." "Well, I know that, mate," growled the man. "But I say, can't you reach up to my hands?" "Yah!
Some more of the twenty-five thousand began to emerge from the skep, and a moment later I was stung in the lobe of the right ear. The pain, I may say, was acute, but it certainly broke the spell, and I turned and ran as I have never run before. Across the garden, down the drive, out of the lodge gates, over a hedge, with eighteen inches to spare, and across country like a thoroughbred.
All went well until Berry was on the point of lifting the skep. Suddenly something jumped in the wallflowers by Daphne, and she started against her husband with a little scream. It was a toad. I felt braver. We were not alone. But my pleasure was shortlived. Berry's hand had been upon the skep and the jolt had aroused the bees. Uprose an angry murmur. I felt instinctively it was an angry one.
Clare readily consented to spare his housekeeper, but the housekeeper was untoward, she was "busied in her housewife skep," and would not stir. Alick was gone to Timber End, and Rachel was just talking of getting the schoolmaster's wife as an escort, when Mr. Clare said "Pray are you above accepting my services?" "You! Oh, uncle; thank you, but " "What were your orders?
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