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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUttE. 



Aug. 



" Now,'' said Mr. Green, '■you are ready 

 to try sawing off aboard.'" So saying he 

 took ii lis'ure-foui' gange, placed a lioard up 

 securely against it, and pushed slowl>-. The 

 windmill and the saw both tlien went to 

 work, and for tiic^ tirst time showed that 

 they^'were equal to the task of cutting off 

 boards nice and sipiare. Mr. (ireen found 

 that the saw would not stand crowding ;it 

 all, otheiwise it would stall the windmill. 

 He then tried some half-inch stuff'. Tiie 

 saw would cut through that very easily and 

 quickly. 



" Now, Jimmy, vou see how well you can 

 do it." 



Jimmy grabbed uy) the board, and pro- 

 ceeded to cut off a length as if he were an 

 old hand at the business. Before he knew 

 it, somehow or other the saw caught the 

 board and jerked it out of his hand. 



" What did that?" said Jinmiy. 



" The trouble was," said Mr. Green, "you 

 should liave held the board square against 

 the gang;' when the saw-teeth entered the 

 board ; for when you began to crowd, it 

 pinched. One of two things had to follow — 

 either the saw Avould have to stop entirely, 

 or else wrencli tlie board away. I forgot to 

 caution you before you tried sawing. At all 

 events, I will say now, be very careful. It 

 not unfrequently happens that men lose 

 their hands, or "are knocked insensible, by 

 such a little mishap as that. In the tirst 

 instance, the saw would so jerk the board 

 as to throw the hand right on the running 

 saw. In the second instance, the momen- 

 tum whicli the board would acquire from 

 the saw would be sulticient to knock a man 

 down if it should strike him right, and pos- 

 sibly even kill him." 



•Jimmy tried it again and was more suc- 

 cessful. Then Sam tried his hand. In view 

 of. Jimmy's mishap he was even more suc- 

 cessful. 



^ Ilarkl" said Sam. " I guess ma is calling 

 us to breakfast.'' 



■• Yes," said Mr. Green, looking at his 

 watch, '• it is high time now." 



After breakfast, .limray and Sam, along 

 with Ted, climbed up into the barn-loit. 

 They then waited for Mr. (ireeii to come up 

 and give them further instructions. In the 

 mean time .Jimm>- tried his hand at slijjpiug 

 on the belt, which he did with entire suc- 

 cess. Just then a teamster from the mill 

 called out at the barn-door below. He had 

 just come with a load of lumber, which Mr. 

 Green had ordered for the hive-stuff. The 

 two boys hastened down, leaving Ted up- 

 stairs with the buzz-saw running. As there 

 was not room abt)ve in the barn-loft for very 

 much lumber, Mr. Green had arranged a 

 place in an unoccupied stall below. Here 

 the boys were engaged for a few minutes in 

 taking indoors and piling the lumber in said 

 stall. When the boards were all neatly 

 stacked up, .Jimmy heard a giggling up- 

 stairs ; then a sharp click, as if window 

 glass were breaking ; another giggle, and 

 another sharp click. 



"My! "said Sam, just recollecting him- 

 self, "■ we left Ted upstairs.'' 



"That's so, by cracky ! '' said Jimmy. 



So saying, the boys hastily clambered up 



into the barn-loft. As they got upstairs 

 Ted was laughing, and saying, " See 'em 

 zip." The buzz-saw was humming at full 

 speed; and with a bundle of sticks in his 

 hand, every now and then he would drop 

 one on the teeth of the saw. With tlie ac- 

 quired momentum of the teeth, the sticks 

 shot across the barn like bullets, traveling 

 at the rate of about three thousand feet a 

 minute. Some of the sticks had hit Jim- 

 my's and Sam's window, whicli our readers 

 will remember they had fastened into the 

 side of the barn, right over their work- 



bench. 



'' Just see "em zip ! ' 

 boys could interfere: 



said Ted, before the 

 and another stick 



went whizzing across the barn, nearly hit- 

 ting Sam. 



" Look here, you little brat," said Jim- 

 my; " who said you might do that ? " 



"Nobody," said Ted ; " just see 'em zip;" 

 and another stick went whizzing, and an- 

 other little hole was made in the window. 



•limmy was so enraged that he grabbed 

 his little brother by the nape of his neck, 

 and hustled him downstairs about as fast 

 as he knew how. Ted then began to set up 

 one of his roars. He wanted to go back and 

 shoot some more sticks. 



" No, sir ; you won't go up into that barn 

 again in a hurry, I guess. I never can take you 

 anywiiere but you're into some sort o' mis- 

 chief." So saying, he hustled him off home. 

 Jimmy's mother came out, and was prepar- 

 ed to give him a scolding. Jimmy had got 

 used to them, and so did not mind it. Aft- 

 er his mother had said all she had to say, he 

 hurried liack. to liiul Sam mourning at the 

 loss of his window. 



" My ! " said Sam, " it that stick had hit 

 me I believe it would have gone right 

 tlirough me. Why, just look there I It went 

 clean thiougli lliat window, making a nice 

 round hole."' 



By this time Mr. Green came in. Tpon 

 the boys" telling what had happened, he said 

 that was pretty dangerous business. It was 

 a wonder that some of them did not get 

 seriously hurt— more than all. that Ted had 

 not cut his lingers, or got caught in the belt. 

 He did not blame Ted, but he did blame the 

 boys for being so forgetful and careless as to 

 leave so small a boy alone near running ma- 

 chinery. 



Vontinued Sept. 15. 



JaVENILE liEWTE^-B©^. 



" A chiers aniang ye takin' notes; 

 An' faith, he'll prentit. " 



A YOITNG gUEEN. 



How lonjj- will <i queen live wittiout attendants? I 

 put a younj^- queen in a cag-e at about tive o'clock in 

 the afternoon, June l!0, and slie lived by herself un- 

 til some time in the nijiht of Julj' 'i. 



\jr.v. W. Wrtght, age 13. 



Palmyra, Mo., July 8, 1SS7. 



A queen by herself will not live very long; 

 but if she has a few bees with her, and a lit- 

 tle Good candy, she will live from a week to 

 two weeks. 



