This provides me with an opening for a story with a bit of a beekeeper
context.  35 years ago I was started in beekeeping by a third generation
beekeeper, with a "day job", who ran 300 stationary hives on the
weekends.  He smoked old style "Camels" like a chimney, wether he was
using a smoker or not, and often as not it was not.  He would always have
his "ciggie" hanging out of one side of his mouth and, somehow, he could
shoot a stream of smoke outthe other side, through the veil, with an
uncanny degree accuracy.  The most amazing part of the whole performance
was the little blobs of wax/propolis he would squeeze into all the holes
he had burnt in the "tule" skirt on the bottom of his veils.  I say veils
because he several, each one had more wax "blobs" in it than the next, as
a good "Yankee", excessive wax was not a discardable offence in his book.
 No gloves, no beesuit but he did wear long pants and never got stung
anymore than anyone else.

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