March 12, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



171 



WtiaiyonyonsonTliJnks 



Vel. ay vent to Cbicago to da Riate Chicago 

 an nortvestei-n bee-keepers' meeting, an ay 

 Ijad plenty good time. All you bee mans vot 

 dident go you mist it plenty bad. An it you 

 don't go next time you vil hit it da same vay 

 veryou mist it dis time. 



My goodness, ay fine out lots 'bout bees, ao 

 how to nial< doiii lay plenty hunny. An ay 

 see lots of big bee-mans, but dom don't look 

 so very big, an' dom don't seems to feel so 

 very big. but dom iss plenty smart. An little 

 bee-keepers lak Yon Ifonson can yustsitstil 

 an' leru more as nobody elst. Da Nortvestern 

 bee-keepers assoceating iss some plenty good 

 ting, an if you give Mr. Moore, da man vat du 

 da riting, von dollar, he yoin you in to deirs 

 lodge, an da N. B. K. A., bote on da same 

 time, so po das vay ve can kill 2 burds vid a 

 von dollar bill. 



It vas awful nice gurl at da convention; 

 som rite lak sixty, an she rite down all vat 

 dom sed, so Mr. New York print it in Merican 

 bee-paper. 



Y^on Y'onson never bin to Chicago before, so 

 after da eonvensbul vas over, ay tank mebby 

 it iss better ay look around. So ay vent to 

 stock show an' seen da hogs, cows, horses, an 

 so on, an dom vas plenty nice. So ay go to 

 da bord of trade, ver you know dom hay so 

 many bulls an bears. Ay dont can understan' 

 how dom can keep so many cattels an bears 

 togedder, but mebby its 'cause it iss dillerent 

 locality; but, mine goodeness, ay vas too late, 

 for dom yust sed amen. Ay look roun, but ay 

 don't did see any cattels or bears, but ay herd 

 feller vat sed soaie ting 'bout vattered stock, 

 so ay tank mebby dom drove dom catties to 

 da lake to drink, or mebby dom bears ete 

 dom catties all up. 



So, befor ay go home ay tank mebby its bet- 

 ter ay buy som leetel present for Mrs. Ton 

 Y'onson, so ay go into plenty big store an ay 

 git some present, kine a cheep, of eours. Da 

 klurk he akt awful nice an friendly, an vont 

 Y'on Yonson to buy hole pile ma flumy tixens, 

 but dom don't kin fool Svede man po das vay. 



Vel, ay don't got null change, so ay give 

 him ten dollar bill, an he rite on a pece of 

 paper, an he put my ten dollars in a little 

 basket vat hang on a vire. An my for da 

 good land, dat basket took crasy streak an 

 yust run avay ma hole ting. "My goode- 

 ness," ay say, " You don't goan to play no 

 Y'ank trick on Yon Yonson,'" ay say. So ay 

 lit out holly hooping after da basket, "Hold 

 on da," klurk say. 



" Yes, you bet ay hold on to my ten dollars, 

 if ay ketch das basket," ay say. 



Da store vas ful mavimens, but dom cleared 

 da track ven dom see me after das basket. 

 But dom don't got more sens dan to laff. But 

 purty soon ay run rite over tree vimens, an ay 

 fall down an bump my nose in da floor. My 

 goodeness, da yust hurt lak forty biases; an 

 ven ay git up an pull my nose bak in shape 

 ay don't kin see da basket. But von grate, 

 big man feller he tak holt of me, an he say : 

 " My, goodeness, hay-seed seems to he goan 



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