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 Well,  last week an old beek'r I know rang me out of the blue and made me an offer I couldn't refuse: two working hives for $250 a piece. The only condition was that I had to return his boxes. 

Well  the story goes,  that one of his tenants ( a reliable source of income in these trying times), had complained about the bees shitting on his new black Mercedes comfortable. So they had to go.  

I have a condition on buying stuff,  that I don't buy anything in tip top condition,  and I don't pay to price. With the greatest respect to the old fellow,  I reckon that his hives are not as peak output.  He tries hard and knows his stuff,  but he has too many hives tucked away in a shady and cold nook in the back blocks of a light industrial area. There's no way the bees would be warm or dry enough and I doubt they'd have enough feed. So there's some room for improvement,  and the price is right!

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