Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1898 — Walled In by Bees. [ARTICLE]

Walled In by Bees.

A Western newspaper reports a singular discovery made by some farmers who found a “bee tree” and cut it down to get the honey. The honey was in a hollow midway of the trunk. The men split the Irunk, and to their .surprise took out not only some eighty pounds of honey, but a dead duck and eleven duck eggs. It appeared that a wood Huck had made a nest iu the hollow, and that after she began to sit upon the eggs the bees stopped up the entrance with comb, so that she was unable to get out.