January. 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



57 



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I had every last sort o ' good intention to 

 turn over a new leaf New Year's Day, and 

 get away to a new start about language. I 

 did. But you all will see just how I couldn't 

 under the circumstances, for you '11 take no- 

 tice right away how I just had to lug the old 

 ^ear over into the new one, finishin ' up that 

 trouble that started onto me all to oncet 

 out in my old barn one night the last part 

 of November. So I suppose here goes for an- 

 other year just like all the others, no better 

 and probably some worse — all on account of 

 other folks ' iuterf erin ' with me as an au- 

 thor. 



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Well, I got that durnation censor clamp 

 unloosened from that article I began in De- 

 cember Gleanings and wasn 't allowed to 

 finish up. I told the Eoots I had a whale of 

 a good moral attached right onto the end 

 of it, and they said if that was so I could 

 finish it this January number. So I am going 

 to. 



You readers wull remember it was about 

 something that happened to me in my barn 

 where I had stored potatoes in the old horse 

 stall with no siding on it and gone fishin ' 

 with my neighbor Lutz when praps I ought 

 to have got those potatoes all the way to the 

 cellar and been prepared for the cold snap 

 that came up so awful suddent. I told you 

 hoAv I outmaneuvered my wife by staying 

 over at the office till dark and got by her and 

 into the cellar on the way to the barn a-sail- 

 in ', and nothing very cheerful for me goin ' 

 on anywhere. As I was saying, I was just 

 wishin for the company and comf ortin ' as- 

 sistance of my neighbor, Ab Lutz, to help sort 

 and carry those potatoes into the cellar. He 

 was more to blame for my leavin ' off work 

 and goin' fishin' the afternoon before than 

 any one else was. About half of all this 

 summer he's been tantingly waving a fish- 

 pole over my backyard fence — if the Mrs. 



