bee-book

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It nails a horseshoe over the door, but keeps a rattle by its bedside to summon a more substantial watchman; it hangs a crape on the beehives to get a taste of ideal sweetness, but obeys the teaching of the latest bee-book for material and marketable honey.

Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
"An _appyary_" (so he was pleased to pronounce it), "I should be familiar with the name, sir, from my bee-book, but I never calls my own stock anything but the beehives.

We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863