March, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CUI>TURE 



191 



Around the Office — Continued 



ness fashion they pushed the campaign right 

 ahead to the next hive. Another of tlieir 

 side-curve jumps right together, and there 

 was more splinters, and another colony of 

 bees was out of house and provisions and 

 some disconcerted, too. It was all so sud- 

 dent with 'em. Holtermann says durn if 

 them goats didn 't take just 20 out of them 23 

 hives, one after another, butt-bang-splinters- 

 and-honey, and would have butted the other 

 three into the middle of the next week, if 

 the poor beekeeper's wife standin' on the 

 side lines hadn't a finally stopped wringin ' 

 her hands and moanin' long enough to send 

 a synipathizin ' neighbor who got on the 

 scene down the road a ways to a old bee- 

 keeper for help. He came runnin ', a bee 

 veil, overcoat, glove's and two pairs k)f 

 trousers on, and finally got a holt of the 

 chain that linked those two earnest, hard- 

 workin' goats together, and pulled 'em off 

 the job. lie had to pull some, too, for them 

 goats had got their eyes lit ujj with victory 

 and high purpose by that time, and they was 

 lackin ' only about two minutes of showin ' 

 some miscalculatin ' Ontario bees what a 

 clean job looks like; also what bees can ac- 

 complish by urgin' goats on. 



There ain 't much moral to extract from 

 this sorrowin' scene except that A. I. Eoot 

 better draw in his horns on advisin ' bee- 

 keepers about goats too much; also that it's 



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