ADVENTURE WITH BEES

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 16 (Supplement)

ADVENTURE WITH BEES

LONDON, July 7. The Hungarian papers relate this morning an amusing story of how a highly respectable farmer lost simultaneously his reputation as a gentleman, his trousers and his liberty, and was confined for some days in an asylum, all on aocount of a few score of bees, says the Budapest correspondent of the Dally Telegraph. The farmer, M. Anton Kertesz, of Nylregyhaza, reoently started beekeeping, hut found that his bees positively refused to improve the shining hour by gathering honey. On the advioe of an expert he collected two families of unbusy bees in a couple of milk Jugs and* took them to the Budapest Aplological Institute to have them psycho-analysed—or whatever Is done to discover the cause of character defects In bees. The farmer put the Jugs, covered J with parchment which he thought was ffrmly tied down, beneath his seat I In the train. Soon, however, the bees were swarming up his legs beneath his trousers and making their presence felt. Two women shared his compartment, and, with true Hungarian gallantry, he suffered tn silence until

Swarm in a Train

V> could bear no more and was forced * to scream In agony. "Clear out lmi ; mediately." The terrified women - fled into- the next compartment. j Mistaken for a Madman. Meantime M. Kertesz utilised their absence to remove his trousers and shake the Invaders out of the window. . Unfortunately for him an express train r passing In the opposite direction tore the trousers out of his hand. ' At this moment the guard anxiously ' peerpd into the compartment. Seeing 1 a trouserless man gesticulating from * the window he rapidly withdrew, 1 locking the door behind him. 1 At Budapest the door was unlocked 1 to admit two men, w r ho told, the farmer that they were tailors come to measure him for new trousers. He was suspicious of the two unusually 1 | athletic-looking tailors, and his sus- * j piolons were Justified when they pinioned him to a stretcher and placed him In an ambulance. Arrived at an asylum, the indignant farmer started an incoherent story of milk Jugs, Idle bees and vanished trousers, which resulted in the unhappy man being furnished, not with trousers, but with a strait waistcoat.