. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 606 THE BKITISH BEE JOUBNAL. Dec. 14, 1922. framed in order to get the lecturer to eluci- date more fully some point in his speech. Such questions are always interesting, and, to me, most helpful. Then there is the bud- ding bee-keeper, the one who has kept bees for a few months and is most enthusiastic, but lamentably ignorant. Ignorant, however, with the full knowledge of his own ignor- ance, and only anxious to obtain as much help as possible. We have all been in that state. But the particular bete noire, of all lec- turers is the one w
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 606 THE BKITISH BEE JOUBNAL. Dec. 14, 1922. framed in order to get the lecturer to eluci- date more fully some point in his speech. Such questions are always interesting, and, to me, most helpful. Then there is the bud- ding bee-keeper, the one who has kept bees for a few months and is most enthusiastic, but lamentably ignorant. Ignorant, however, with the full knowledge of his own ignor- ance, and only anxious to obtain as much help as possible. We have all been in that state. But the particular bete noire, of all lec- turers is the one who knew it all before the speaker's grandfather was born. He asks questions, not for the purpose of seeking information, or of helping the lecturer, but merely to show the crowd what idiot has been put up to talk, and how much better A Gotswold Gem. Truly there is one gem among the delight- fully situated hamlets of the Cotswold up- lands. By common consent it is fully worthy of its title. Esconced partly on the hillside or " bank," the village runs down and away along a pleasant valley, wherein winds the Colne—a clear stream with a gravel bed across which are old stone bridges of quaint design. The first glimpse arouses one's expectation. Seen from the vantage ground of the high road in the softer sunlight of October, when the foliage is changing colour and the way is strewn with rustling leaves, an enchant- ing view meets the eye. Quaint houses peep between clusters of. In a Cotswold Garden. it would be had he himself been providing the speech. A civil answer is wasted upon him. More likely than not, when he re- ceives it, he will put in a flat contradiction or try to commence an argument aiming to show his own superiority and the absolute imbecility of the lecturer. What is to be done with such a one ? These lines will never meet his eye, -for he has no need, and never has had need of the , being so far superior that even this journal can teach him noth
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