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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



March, 1918 



Around the Office — Continued 



about the first time durin ' all history that 

 any kind of human — even the poor, down- 

 treadin ' beekeeper kind — has found the sort 

 of occasion when he would like to be the 

 goat. 



I'm gettin' so long winded, I don't get 

 around to treat on half the subjects put up 

 for my consideration and reflexion. I meant 

 to give my friend (it ain't HE that ain't my 

 friend in his family) J. L. Byer a good deal 

 of a discourse as to what a feller is to do 

 when he wants to do somethin ' and daresn 't, 

 because he's afraid of his wife. I know, 

 I do. He's come to the head fountain source 

 of information exactly for instruction con- 

 cernin' this dangerous topic. No man livin' 

 is better authority than a man who loves 

 fishin' and whose wife don't but does love 

 good garden sass and industry. I shan't 

 give my treatise on " How to Fool Your 

 Wife ' ' in this Gleanin 's, friend Byer. There 

 ain't time or space after givin so much 

 to A. I. Eoot and two goats. But seein ' 

 you are thinkin ' along this line, I want to 

 save you possible complications by jest say- 

 in ' this right here: If you ain't good at 

 f oolin ' a wife, don 't try it not oncet even. 

 As I 've got so I say to my fishin ' friend, 

 Ab. Lutz, when he comes along floiirishin ' 

 a fish pole back side of my garden, when I 'm 

 hoein': " Ab, I better hoe right here all 

 summer than to get caught lyin ' again. ' ' 

 That's so, too, Mr. Byer. 



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"Being without Gleanings is like having 

 j'our wife away from home." — W. U. Bleas- 

 dale, Conneaut, O. Gosh! I wonder if that 

 feller Bleasdale likes Gleanin 's? 



* * * 



I ain 't ever done anythin ', as I am know- 

 in' to, to Freeman B. Eeeder, of Shamokin, 

 Pa., that he should want to see me all claw- 

 ed up, crunched together and strewn round 

 promiscuous all to pieces. Yet he sends this 



suggestion along: "1 can't wait till M.-A.- 

 O. gives that dear and grand old-young man, 

 Dr. Miller, a most hearty shaking-up among 

 the ads. of Gleanings. I think it would help 

 keep him with us much longer." Yes, that's 

 all right, but what I want to know is, 

 would it be likely to help keep me with us 

 much longer? As I have heretofore said, I 

 would like to see some disputatious sunofa- 

 gon put on the gloves and lock horns with 

 Dr. Miller. But as for myself I ain 't a can- 

 didate or a darkhorse even. I am for peace 

 continuous right along with the old api- 

 eultural lion of Marengo. But I '11 help 

 egg on any rumpus that anybody else any- 

 where wants to start with him. 



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