The clouds of smoke have dazed the bees, a cloud of unknowing introduced into the smell-space of the city-hive. Now the ape owner of this hollow wood cube can safely use bare hands to open the bee-home (which the bees did not build, and do not own). Finger morphologically similar to the bones inside whale fins are used with careful articulation to pull out one of the mail-order comb-holding frames from the hive. A metal tool provides some assistance in this operation.     A telegram had warned Hive-Maker of a new disease among the British black bees.