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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: highly dangerous, if warrantable, frenzy, and that they would
take immediate steps to abate the nuisance in their own simple
way. But that, my brothers, is where we are wrong. Where bees
are concerned, the 'smoker's' fumes are of a soporific and
soothing nature. Indeed, before a puff of its smoke a bee's
naughty malice and resentment disappear, and the bee itself
sinks, gently humming, into the peaceful, contented slumber of a
little che-ild.
At least, that was what the books said.
Seven o'clock that evening found us huddled apprehensively
together outside the kitchen garden, talking nervously about the
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