April 23, 1903. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



267 



^ wnal Yon yonson Tliinks 



Vel, my goodeuess, ay feel kine of sorry for 

 Peter Peterson, coz he is struck wid pros- 

 perity plenty bad. Mebby it's cause he jrot 

 too much confidence. Hebeanvork for Ole 

 Peterson for 40 days, an he grit 40 dollar, an 

 he haven plenty mony, an now he tank he iss 

 yust som smart somnobody, an he yust lurn 

 to talk merican like nutting. It corns yust 

 so natural for Peter to lurn merican som to 

 ete cabbage. My goodeness, Peter say ven he 

 only been in Unity State for tree monls he 

 could talk merican in tree different langvige, 

 and he tank he iss a dandy feller. He say to 

 Ole Peterson, he don't goan to milk his cows 

 any more, so if Ole vont dom cows milkt he 

 can yust do it self. Vel, Ole he don't lak das, 

 so he say, " My goodeness, Peter, '' he say, 

 '* ef you don't goan to do da vork, den ay 

 goan to turn you off." But Peter he don't 

 care; he say if Ole Peterson turn him off den 

 he goan to quvit. An he don't goan to vork 

 for him any more. Dat's vot Peter sed. 



An he say he vont for Yon Yonson to lurn 

 him how to keep bees. Vel. Peter iss som 

 purty smart feller, so mebby ay hire Peter to 

 'help drive da bees das summer. Peter vil be 

 youst da feller for brush-svarming, only ay 

 iss kine of frade dat mebby eider da bees or 

 Peter is liable to abscond ; but if ay can keep 

 Peter an' da bees togedder long nuff den if 

 Peter don't ketch on, mebby da bees ketch on 

 to Peter. An Peter is good for bout 500 revo- 

 lutions per minit, in case oxidant. 



Peter he say he vont to keep von svarm on 

 share, an he goant to sho me how to git lots 

 of hunny. " Vel," ay say, " if you promis 

 not to hide behine da potatis box agin, den 

 you can have von svarm on share. Ay got 

 von colony of kine of black bees, dom is kine 

 of kross, so mebby you git more dan your 

 share; but ay vill give dom new quveen so 

 dom soon vil bee all clover bees,'' ay say, 

 "an' dom vill all have long tungs." 



Vel, Peter say he don't kare vot kine of 

 lungs dom got, or if dom is tung-tied, or even 

 got glas eyes, but he don't vont dom shal 

 hav any longer stings dan issab.soluteIy nesses- 

 sary. 



Now, Peter, he don't vas married yet, but 

 he got awful nice girl vat live along da tele- 

 phone line. Ay tel Peter if he don't votch 

 out he soon goan to be ole batch, an dom say 

 ole batchlers don't live so long som married 

 mans. Vel, Peter he say he don't believe da 

 married mans live any longer, but mebby it 

 seems lots longer, he say, cause dom have 

 more trubble. 



But Peter he tank it is fun to call up his 

 girl on da telephone an kine of mak love. 

 New, it iss gainst da rules to du any sparken 

 on da telephone, cause you know da souns 

 kine of silly; but ven da boys along da line 

 listen to Peter, dom has more fun don Peter, 

 so ve don't vas enforce da rules on Peter yet. 

 Now, Peter's girl, Christina, she live on 

 different line, so he hav to call up Central. 

 Vel, da boys along da line dom kine of put up 

 job on Peter, an ven Peter call up Central an 

 say, " Give me Christena, please," den Cen- 

 tral girl she ring up da hotel to da nigger 

 cook, so purty soon she say, " Hello, sah !" 

 "Hello, Christena!" Peter say, "How is 

 you feeling das evening?"' "Oh, fine, fine," 

 she say, "Is yo Sambo?" she say. "No it 

 don't vas any rainbow in vinter," Peter say, 

 " but mebby ve goan to hav som more snow," 

 he say, " an mebby ay goan to com roun to- 

 morrow nite an' tak you slay ride, an ve go to 

 church." he say, 



" Bles yodea'hart!" she say. " Yo is de 

 bestes nigger in town," "My goodeness," 

 Peter say, " ay don't vas any nager. Seems 

 to me your voice don't vas soun natural," 

 Peter say ; " you musta hav bad cole, ay hope 

 you don't vas sick," 



"Hooisyo?" she say, " Is you Sammy <" 

 " No, ay don't vas Santa," Peter say, " It 

 don't vas time to hang up yours stocken now," 

 he say, "Santa Claus is vay up in Alaska 

 now," Peter say, "Do ay taU: lak Santa 

 Claus <■' he say, "Santa dont vas got his 

 phone connected yet," Peter say. "but ven 



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