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what he took out last August, and he told me that before winter he 

 was going to take out some more, because those hives were really so 

 heavy that when I got hold of that trunk on one side and he on the 

 other we could hardly lift it. 



He makes vinegar, I saw barrels out in the sun. He said he wanted 

 to make honey vinegar. He had barrels standing out in the hot sun. He 

 gave me some to taste. We used it in our camp, and I will say that the 

 vinegar has nothing on Dr. Reynolds' that he made up in Minnesota. 



Then I learned something else from that man, which probably 

 would not be worth much after the 1st of July is here. He is making honey 

 wine. He makes it like they make the regular wine, and puts it in 

 barrels. He gave me some of that wine to taste, it was five years old, 

 and it looked to me as though it was very good, and he says he knows 

 even how to make stronger drinks than that. You know the idea of 

 prohibition has never reached those countries, that is a country which 

 has never heard of temperance or prohibition, so don't blame them 

 for it. 



Now, I made arrangements with this man that I was going to 

 buy from him three of his hives. In the mean time our Root hives 

 came from Salonica. I had them all fixed up and painted. When 

 Mr. A. Root sent me those hives he evidently foresaw that I would 

 have to have paint, so he sent me a little 50 pound keg of paint to 

 paint those hives with, because in all the Balkans you could not buy 

 a pound of paint for a thousand dollars, nor a brush. I had those 

 hives beautifully painted, fixed up, a foundation put in, and wire, and 

 then I went to Monastir one Sunday afternoon to bring those bees 

 into our camp. It was ten miles to Monastir, straight along the front, 

 parallel with the front. 



Getting into Monastir, you know, was no easy job, because the 

 Bulgarians and their cannon were within two miles, and the road that 

 led into Monastir was just as straight as a bee line. It was full of 

 shell holes, which they repaired at night. Automobiles and wagons 

 went into Monastir at night, in the darkness of night, when there was 

 no danger of being hit. We knew that the Bulgarians never shot at 

 civilians when they showed a red cross on the motors, when there was 

 a big red cross somewhe're they did not shoot at them, anyway they 

 did not do it when we were there, so we painted on the roof of our 

 automobile a big red cross, and in front and at the sides, and then we 

 took off our uniforms and put some camouflage on to look Hke peasants, 

 and we went into Monastir, started by daylight. We went many 

 times. I made six or seven trips into Monastir, all by day, always 

 getting nearer and nearer to the Bulgarians, all the time expecting 

 that a shell might drop right in front of the automobile. Well, it is 

 an excitement. I believe if you were there you would make a trip 

 every day, it is so exciting, and they never did us any harm. But two 

 American doctors. Dr. Kyse and Dr. Flood, I guess one was from 

 Chicago, two lady doctors, went down one day, and they began to 

 shoot at their automobile, they fired three shells which fell within 100 

 feet, and the poor ladies got out and ran behind the rocks, and they 

 spent the whole afternoon behind the rocks before they could get 



