March, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



AROUND THE OFFICE 



M.-A.-0. 



I don 't associate much more at all any 

 more with A. I. Eoot, so I don't. I ain't 

 savin ' he ain 't a good man either. Just 

 so, he don't seem to be hangin' around han- 

 kerin ' after my company much, and I hain't 

 calullated any of the time to let him into this 

 department, neither. But if he's goin ' to 

 tell fish stories in Gleanin 's, he 's got to be 

 recognized in this department, I suppose, 

 whether I like it or not. Then again, I asso- 

 ciate with about anybody when it comes to 

 fish and fishin ' and fish stories and I don 't 

 see but that the fish story ' ' Uncle Amos ' ' 

 has sent ain't pretty near up to standard. 

 It 's as big a one as my fishin ' friend, Ab. 

 Lutz, has ever told, and he's been practiein' 

 50 years or more with some of the best of 

 'em. Ab. and none of his fishin' friends, so 

 far as I am knowin ' to it, ever alleged goin' 

 fishin ' with a rake and wheelbarrow, or 

 meetin ' all the inhabitants of their town to 

 oncet, sufferin ' and swoonin', collective and 

 severally, under the weight of fish so big 

 they couldn't find room for them onto their 

 backs. So, I guess Ab and me and the rest 

 of our fishin ' crowd ain 't so superior to A. I. 

 Eoot that we need feel he is lowerin' the 

 tone of this department if we let him into 

 it long enough to tell a fish story. So here 

 is just verbattum what he sent home, ex- 

 pectin ' evidently it would get past M.-A.-O. 

 into his own high-toned department: 



A few days ago when I an-ived in the suburbs 

 of Bradentown, I passed two girls (nearly full grown 

 women) carrying a pole, a girl at each end. On the 

 pole fish were strung, with the tails dragging on the 

 ground. Said fish were so heavy the girls stopped 

 every few rods to rest. Another girl about as 

 large had a single fish tied over her back, the head 

 coming up near her head, while the tail to this fish 

 also came near (if it did not quite touch) the 

 gi-ound as she walked. A little farther I saw a 

 wheelbarrow full of fish, some of them with their 

 heads over the front end, while their tails dragged 

 on the ground. The explanation of the above is that 

 the frosts and freezes that played such havoc with 

 our gardens made the fish stupid so they floated on 

 top of the salt water, where they could easily be 

 " raked " in. After I got home, I started " Wesley " 

 with the garden rake and a pail down to the canal 

 at the lower end of oiir garden. He soon returned 

 with quite a lot about as big as your hand. It was 

 a case of "the early bird" again. Somebody had 

 gone ahead of him and got all the big ones. Were 

 they good? I started to say at dinner time, "they A 

 are the best fish I ever ate," but Mrs. Root inter- 



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