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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Apeil, 1919 



boy to say he set the trap. I got out of it that 

 way (or, rather, am out of it up to yet) only 

 I feel suspicion keeps pointin my way about 

 it. They can't prove nothin, but they keep 

 a generally cool atmosphere around me yet 

 and keep'pityin the cat specially strong 

 when I am present in persono. They also 

 keep denyin verbally too that they agree 

 with me *as to lixin froze-up pumps, always 

 luggin in somethin about ' ' that mornin 

 poor old kitty got into somebody's trap" — 

 always lookin hard at me just as they bear 

 down specially on that word ' ' somebody 's. ' ' 

 So I say, I am in trouble again, and I aint 

 likely to be free of it complete till Del Gid- 

 din's boy has established hisself in my mind 

 as bein entirely dependable and the kind 

 as hangs by the binder. I know he 's under 

 pressure. I keep wonderin about him and 

 his dependability a lot. 



P. S. and Later. — Since the above was 

 wrote every thin has gone by the board. 

 Giddin's boy let go his agreement and 

 caflummuxed me complete. I aint got no 

 standin with nobody to speak of no more 

 around my domicile, and the old cat at 

 motherinlaw's aint no better as to lameness. 



There ain't no particklar moral to these 

 recurrin incidentses, except a former one, 

 that it don't pay to get mad and make a 

 everlastin fool of yourself, and a additional 

 one that if you get somebody to lie for you 

 in gettin out of trouble you don 't get out 

 much and you keep on worryin a good deal 

 longer. 



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