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HONEY-TAKING, AND AFTERWARDS.
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up the lantern. Mr. Shinar still remained invisible.

'Have the craters stung ye?' said Enoch to Geoffrey.

'No, not much—only a little here and there,' he said with leisurely solemnity, shaking one bee out of his shirt sleeve, pulling another from among his hair, and two or three more from his neck. The others looked on during this proceeding with a complacent sense of being out of it,―much as a European nation in a state of internal commotion is watched by its neighbours.

'Are those all of them, father?' said Fancy, when Geoffrey had pulled away five.

'Almost all,—though I feel a few more sticking into my shoulder and side. Ah! there's another just begun again upon my backbone. You lively young martels, how did you get inside there? However, they can't sting me many times more, poor

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