GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



April, 1919 



AROUND THE OFFICE 



M.-A.-O. 



I was squoze out of the last" Gleanins be- 

 cause I ain't good enough when there aint 

 room for everybody. The highbrows and 

 hifalutins have to have their say whether 1 

 do or not. I aint a sayin I care atall, only 

 I hate to have these high snorters a trompin 

 on me any time whatsoever when I don 't 

 believe half they say and most of em talkin 

 thru their bee" veils. They orter use a 

 smoker on themselves oftener than they do. 

 But seein as how a big advertisement didn 't 

 come in the last minute the Miss Assistant 

 Editor calls out to me when passin her writ- 

 in and disputin den as how I better fill a 

 little space over among the advertisements. 

 I aint proud as I orter be or I'd A told 

 her what she and the mismanagin editor 

 could both do and keep on doin, so I would. 

 But I says, didn't I write up my last big- 

 gest trouble for you last month and you 

 didn 't print it. And she says go and get it 

 and put it in as it was. So I done it and 

 here it is more 'n three quarters true too 

 which is a big average on truth in beekeep- 

 in writin. I then about the first of Marcli 

 wrote as follows towit: 



. I am in trouble oneet again. In fact, I 

 aint out o trouble much any time. It 's just 

 one thing after another as that happens to 

 me continoously and right along. If it aint 

 one thing, then it 's another thing worse 'n 

 the thing afore. It's about all I can stan 

 to have any winter come on and freeze up 

 the fishin complete, but when that last dog- 

 goned cold spell come on last month and 

 froze up my well jiump solid, and I broke the 

 chain tryin to get it to resoom I lost my tem- 

 per some. Before I got control again, it was 

 discovered I had chopped up that pump with 

 a ax to get even. I guess I was het up a 

 good deal and turned on some real language. 

 Anyway, it all led to a good deal of dis- 

 cussion between me and my poor, long-suf- 



ferin wife as to whether I had done any- 

 thin very smart or not and if I thought 1 

 had hurt the low temperature very 

 considerable by knockin the useful old 

 pump to smithereens. This wouldn't 

 have been so much out of the ordinary 

 if somethin else hadn't a happened 

 right onto the top of it. 

 Accordin to usual pro- 

 gram, riiy conjoogal oth- 

 er half went just a-sail- 

 in across the road over 

 to my mother-in-law 's 

 to tell her all about my 

 liumj) action — not omit- 

 tin any details, yoif bet. 

 Well, my mother-in-law 

 liadn 't any more 'n fair- 

 ly got started in on my 

 general disposishun and 

 solushun of frozen pump troubles than her 

 favorite old pussy cat, somewhere out by the 

 chicken house, let out the allfiredest combi- 



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