Jaspistos

A swarm of bees

issue 12 August 2006

In Competition No. 2455 you were invited to incorporate a dozen given words, all beginning with b, into a plausible piece of prose.

The given words were on the surface less testing than usual, but that was only to lure you into the trap of the too obvious. Cleverclogs, like Jeremy Chilcott and L.E.

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