This image is the cover for the book The Bee-Master of Warrilow, Classics To Go

The Bee-Master of Warrilow, Classics To Go

Excerpt: "Warrilow is a little precipitous village tucked away under the green brink of the Sussex Downs; and the bee-farm lay on the southern slope of the hill, with a sheltering barrier of pine above, in which, all day long, the winter wind kept up an impotent complaining. But below, among the hives, nothing stirred in the frosty, sun-riddled air. Now and again a solitary worker-bee darted up from a hive door, took a brisk turn or two in the dazzling light, then hurried home again to the warm cluster. But the flash and quiver of wings, and the drowsy song of summer days, were gone in the iron-bound January weather; and the bee-master was lounging idly to and fro in the great main-way of the waxen p. 18city, shot-gun under arm, and with apparently nothing more to do than to meditate over past achievements, or to plan out operations for the season to come."

Tickner Edwardes

Edward Tickner Edwardes was vicar of Burpham in West Sussex from 1927 until 1935. He wrote a number of books, most notably about his great passion, bees. He also wrote novels, one of which, 'Tansy', was made into a silent film in 1921.

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