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The hives were filled with their clear honey.

James Hive-Maker had never harvested so early as that year.

The colonies were so crowded that everyday there was a new swarming.

	James Hive-Maker and other working on the hives, harvesting the honey. lifting out and brushing off the comb. whistling while they work. Shrill tunes, learned at research school ("Oh Molecule of Bethlehem"; "I've Been Working on TestTube"; etc).

26:15

The Mesopotamian Bonanza:

Ella Spiralum and Zoltan Abbassid return from their New Mexico honeymoon to find that the Mesopotamian bees are an astounding source of wealth, producing young and honey in prodigious amounts.