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AUGUST, 1918 



Around the Office — Continued 



soinetliiu' that evenin', and the trouble al- 

 ways is you can't tell the frame of niiud 

 a skunk is in. Mel says you ought always 

 to look at a skunk's eye afore hoistiu' him. 

 and see what frame of mind he's in. 

 Arlie says you better look out for' your own 

 eve if vou do hoist him. 



The other thing happened the same night. 

 It wan 't much, only we don 't know how 

 much it was, for we didn 't hear what was 

 said. But ' ' Uncle Amos ' ' got up during 

 the night some time, and in the dark of his 

 bedroom stepped on a bumblebee that he had 

 imjJorted in his trousers the day before. A. 

 I. E. was suri)rised some, and put it down 

 as the worst sting he ever got. I figure it 

 out that the bumblebee family made up its 

 mind that it was about time they got a lit- 

 tle attention from A. I. E., and took this 

 sneakin ' prowlin ' way of doin ' it. Any- 

 way, apis bumblebeus has scored with Uncle 

 Amos stronger in a way than apis mellifica 

 has recently. 



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Pishin 's poor this season. My bees are 

 stingin ' uncommon hard. Cabbage worms 

 put in a undue early appearance. Those 

 squash bugs are meaner 'n ever. So I ain 't 

 seein ' much more light on the great uni- 

 versal plan than heretofore; and the reason 

 of bein ' at all, with cabbage worms, squash 

 bugs and jiotato bugs thicker 'n hair on a 

 dog, ain 't a clearin ' up to me much. Pov- 

 erty, hard gardenin ' conditions, no fishin, 

 and war news don 't make life one continoo- 

 in ' on-with-the-dance-and-let-joy-be-uncon- 

 fined with me. But wait till I get up fishin' 

 with friend J. L. Byer. He's invited me 

 and I 'm goin '. 



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