NOVKMBEE, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



703 



shore. But why did he stick his feet up 

 so? Are they auythin to be proud of? 

 And does a hat and glasses generally ac- 

 company a gent what is floatin sure? 

 lony Fowls says if I dare publish this picher 

 I just better go home from tlie office for a 

 few nights on some other street than where 

 his wife lives on. I had tliought of that 

 too, and I am goin to do it. 



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Here's a feller I like and I'll bet he's 

 honest. He's F. N. Westgate of Portage la 

 Prairie. Man. He wrote one of the Boots the 

 other day sayin': "I am troubled with 

 shorts, as they say here. Money is the scarc- 

 est thing you ever saw with me just now." 

 That's me too all over. I'll bet Westgate 's 

 a fisherman and tends to it, too. 

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Mr. W. C. Young of Chicago writes the 

 Roots about receivin one of their books 

 and ends up by sayin: ''I certainly enjoy 

 it when nothing else can please me." Mr. 

 Young, is your wife livin .? 



J. L. Byer now comes along in a letter to 

 me personal sayin he invited me fishin oncet 

 and that was a standin invitation and that 

 was enough. It might a been enough for 

 ordinary people runnin in ordinary luck. 

 But I don 't ever know how I am standin 

 with people the next day. I aint generally 

 steadilv liked bv nobodv. I have to make 



sure new every mornin that my own old 

 coon houn, who I've fed lovinly for a dozen 

 years, wont bite me that day. Why would 

 I expect a invitation then to hold good till 

 I could get to Canady? I couldn't. But 

 why should Byer go on in his letter to me 

 tellin what great fishin they've been havin 

 up there this fall, and end up 1)y sayin, 

 "but the fishin 's over for this year?" Is 

 that the regulation endin of a standin in- 

 vitation to come a fishin? Next year there 

 won 't be no dodgin me, Byer. You needn 't 

 write me next April or May that the fishin 's 

 over for next year, so you neednt. I 'm 



comin, any way. 



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I see that in this here number of Glean- 

 ins. Dr. Miller says he see Mel Pritchard's 

 picher in October Gleanins. If he did, he 

 had to see it in among my own writins, and 

 I don 't see how so awful good a man as he 

 is pollutes hisself that a way. He says he 's 

 got his opinyon of me — he said it just that 

 a way, as was meaner 'n so he had printed 

 that opinyon in full right out. By the way, 

 that old sage out at Marengo can say more, 

 too, without sayin it at all than most ink 

 spreaders can say in a whole colum. But 

 without eommentin more on him at this 

 time, what I want to say is that if he goes 

 snoopin around in this here Around the 

 Oflice department he oughter take what he 

 finds and not kick about it, so he had. I 

 sort like Dr. Miller too despite what he 

 said about me. 



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