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" Tho Baden-Powell Bees M form the subject of an interesting sketch in the May number of the Royal. Some thirty years ago, it seems, Sir Benjamin Brodie presented Mrs Baden-Powell, mother of the hero of Mafeking, with a swarm of bees ; and these she housed in her drawing-room. They hare thriven and multiplied ever since. The writer says :—: — " One would imagine that the insects might cause no little aunoyanco to visitors and people foolishly frightened of them, harmless though they really are, but the hives are so built that not a bee can get into the room beyond bis hive. These hives of plaited straw, with glass windows that allow the insects to be seen working within, stand on decorated pedestals all along one wall of the drawing-room. The square pipe. . is the means by which tho bees get in and out. The arrangement is similar to that of a stove-pipe or ventilating pipe communicating "vith the open-air. Colon«l Baden-Powell, when at home, is said to take great delight in watching the lives and customs of his mother's pets.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 18, 12 July 1900, Page 3
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