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The six little Bunkers, never having been at Farmer Joel's before and not knowing much about bees, did not understand just what was going to happen. In a general way the Bunker children knew that bees made honey, but how they did it, how the insects lived in hives, with a queen bee who ruled over her subjects almost like a real queen-of all this the six little Bunkers knew nothing.
"What's that thing he's got on his head? " asked Violet, pointing to the mosquito netting veil that was draped over Farmer Joel's hat. "And what's that tin funnel full of smoke he carries? " For the machine in the farmer's hand was like a kitchen funnel, turned on one side, and from the small end poured a cloud of white smoke.