The following is the opening paragraph of Farley Mowat's book "The Boat Who
Wouldn't Float". Reading it brought a smile to my face and I thought that any
beekeeper would enjoy it.
" I have a ingrained fear of auctions dating back to the third year of my
life. In that year my father attended an auction as a means of passing an
aimless afternoon, and he came away from it the bewildered possessor of thirty
hives of bees and all the paraphernalia of an apiarist. Unable to rid himself of
the purchase he became, perforce, a beekeeper, and for the next two years I
lived almost exclusively on a diet of soda biscuits and honey. The gods
smiled on us and all of the bees died of something called foul brood, enabling us
to return to some semblance of a normal life."
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