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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