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" V7E BEE BRETHREN." 



BY REV. NoHMAN PLASS. 



Now you jes' turn to Genesis— 



The chapter I don't mind; 

 But that don't make no difference, 



'Cause some one else couldn't find 

 The place like me, so when he did, 



Kememherin' he'd ferg-ot. 

 He writ along' on top the page 



'Bout " Alirdham and Lot " — 

 Jes' look fer that, and read the page, 



And pretty soon you'll see 

 How Abraham and Lot fell out 



'Cause they could not agree. 



Tt wasn't iliem that quar'ld, tho', 



But 'twas their /(/;(</ men,— 

 Because they had so many cows 



And calves, I s'pose. that, when 

 They came to water at the well— 



The only well they had— 

 Each man was bound to be there fust. 



And got etarnal mad 

 Because some other critter came 



When he had drawed the Water, 

 And gulped it down as unconcerned 



As tho' she thought she'd orter. 



Then each hired man, like boys when mad. 



Would run and tell his boss. 

 And 'twixt them was an endless strife 



That worked to each one's loss. 

 Now, Abra'm didn't like to quar'l, 



And 80 he said to Lot: 

 " If me an' you can't peaceful be. 



Then we had better not 

 Attempt to live tergether more; 



So, now, \^ e'W separate: 

 You choose what ground yoiocows can pick. 



And on the rest inim 'U bait." 



I s'pose'that, in them early days, 



There was no irrigation; 

 And when one well was all they had 

 ■ It stirred up irritation. 

 Jes' sn ta-day we sometimes must 



Drink at a single well; 

 And when we tread each other's toes, 



Sometimes— it's sad to tell— 

 We claw and hook, and strike and kick. 



And stir up such a battle 

 That any one that's looking on 



Can't tell the men from cattle. 



But now you run the story thro', 



And you'll diskiver whether 

 They both got on in fust-rate style 



When they didn't live tergether. 

 What I am driving after now. 



Is not the cows a-tetherin'. 

 But tho'ts that Abraham divulged 



When he said, " Wc bee brethren." 

 That was the word he said to Lot; 



And when he'd spoken it, 

 One looked at t'other, and thenceforth 



They did)i't qiiar'l a bit. 



Whether their bres were troublesome. 



And stung each other's cattle; 

 Whether they swarmed around the troughs 



And helped bring on the battle, 

 The sacred narrative don't say, 



But only tells us that 

 When Abram said— "bee brethren we," 



It ended all the spat. 

 That's all we krwiv about their bees— 



Jes' what them words disclose; 

 But they reveal to us the fact 



That bee-men eun't be foes. 



Now, when we find that there are things 

 That make our feelin's roil. 



