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Show HAD 8TORED HONEY IN HOUSE. Industrious Bees Had Hive Bstwesn Floors of Dwelling. For sovcral years Patrick Prender-gast Prender-gast of Ablngton, Pa., lived in a bouse along the Old York road, not knowing that a swarm ot bee also considered it their home. The svarm hived between be-tween the first and second floors, directly di-rectly beneath the beds occupied each night by Prendergast and his family. The houso where Prendergast lived, with a realty sale, passed Into posses- I slon of John Lambert, Jr., a promt- nent Philadelphia with a country I place at Ablngton. In line with pro- H jectcd lofprovoments, Lambert ar- R rangod to ,havo the house moved back I from thn present foundations, pre- I llmls-nfy to having it remodeled, the 1 structure being more than 100 years 9 old. ' I "Workmen discovered Ut presence I oft the bees, and an apiarist employel I tolremove the swarm found moro than L SOD pounds ot pure honey betwoen the H second floor and the celling ot the first. It being assumed that Mr. Lam-berttook Lam-berttook title to the honey with the bouse, the honey was turned over to him. |