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Eben Holden

CHAPTER 4
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Then his breast began heaving violently, his legs stiffened behind him and he sank, head downward, in the grass.

Uncle Eb saw the death throes of the bee and knelt down and lifted the dead body by one of its wings.
'Jes' look at his velvet coat,' he said, 'an' his wings all wet n' stiff.

They'll never carry him another journey.

It's too bad a man has t' kill every step he takes.' The bee's tail was moving faintly and Uncle Eb laid him out in the warm sunlight and fanned him awhile with his hat, trying to bring back the breath of life.
'Guilty!' he said, presently, coming back with a sober face.

'Thet's a dead bee.


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