STUART MCLEAN

       As you know my favorite radio station is CBC 1. As you also know CBC plays a Stuart Mclean story once in a while.

      At one time they had a Stuart Mclean show at noon on Sundays. The show featured a number of things but my favorite was the story. 

    Today they played a Stuart Mclean story and it stopped me in my tracks and I had to listen to it.

    One of the neighbors Eugene wanted something but he was far too old to get it so he got two kids to do the job.

    Eugene liked rosemary honey. He'd seen bees at his rosemary bush and knew that there was a hive nearby. He persuaded two neighborhood kids, Murphy and Sam to look for the hive. Of course Eugene told them exactly what to do. First to attract the bees they were to put honey on a plate. The bees would visit the plate and leave. Murphy and Sam were to follow. 

   It took 5 days to find the hive .Then they were to get one comb out of the hive. You didn't just reach in the hive but used a smoker to scare the bees away.

    One final part to the story. When someone found  hive it was their tree. Eugene couldn't put his mark on the tree so had Murphy and Sam carve their initials on the tree.

   One of  Mclean's strong points was in how he told a story. Today he had a perfect old man's voice.

   Being  very  old many myself , I could easily identify with the story.