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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



that he could scarcely read at all, which 

 made it still more enjoyable, as well as 

 ' ' komical. ' ' Here it is : 



KOMPOSITION ON THE BEE. 



The bee is a double-winged critter what 

 has a hidden power that cannot be seed. 

 When he gets mad he is a .holy terer, and 

 when he climes upon your bee-in, he gives 

 vent to his feelins that can't be heard but 

 felt. 



The bee can do more damage in a minit 

 than most animals kin in hole week. If you 

 have any bisnis with a bee, never 'proach 

 him from the rear, fur it would not be 

 wise. Most fowels have only two legs, but 

 the bee what chased me and Deacon Way- 

 back last Sunday, when we were out hunt- 

 in, hed 500 legs. So Deacon Wayback sed. 



The fust bee was diskivered by Georgie 

 Washington when he cut down his ma's 

 cherry tree, and he could not tell a lie, 

 'cause it stung him to the heart. 



Me and Ikie Schnickelfritz found a bum- 

 ble-bee's nest tother day, and Ikie he sed he 

 knowed how to lick bumblebees; and he 

 jest put puckerin' strings on the bottom of 

 his britches, and then he jest dared the 

 critters to find where he was at ! And then 

 he got down on his face and put his head 

 under a haycock, and acted awfully brave! 

 He said he was infallible. I guess Ikie's 

 ma had not zamined his clothes very soon, 

 fur the bumble-bees found a thin spot, and 

 they jest backed up over that there thin 

 spot, and they tetered up and down, and 

 Moses ! you oughter to have seed that thar 

 haycock move ! I almost split a lafin ! 



The poet Shakespeare talks of bees in his 

 novels, when he sed, "To be, or not to be, 

 that is the question." 



MORRALL. 



Oh, bumble-bee, thou sweet-winged creeter, 

 Upon our anatomy thou doth teeter. 

 With eyes protruded, with a wild cry and 



a jump, 

 The small boy doth murmur, " Ah, feel that 

 lump!" 



Yours troly, 



Ruben Rubbnsxuffer. 



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COWVEKTIOIV DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1894. 

 Nov. 10.— Western Washington, at Tacoma. 

 G. D. Littooy, Sec, Tacoma, Wash. 



Nov. 13. 14.— Illinois State, at Springfield, 111. 

 Jas. A Stone, Sec, Bradfordton, 111. 



Nov. 14, 15— S.W. Wisconsin, at Montford,Wis 

 A. A. Arms. Sec. Hurlbut, Wis. 



Dec. 5.— Central California, at Hanford. 



J. F. Fiory, Sec, Lemoore, Calif. 



Dec.18, 19— Northern Illinois, atRockford,llI 

 B. Kennedy, Sec, New Milford, 111. 



1895. 

 Jan. 9.— Indiana State, at Indianapolis, Ind. 



Walter S. Pouder, Pres., Indianapolis, Ind. 



Jan. 21, 22 rada State, at Denver, Colo 



H. Knight, Sec, Littleton, Colo. 



Jan. 28.— Venango Co., at Franklin, Pa. 



C. S. Pizer, Sec, Franklin, Pa. 



Jan. 30, 31.— Vermont, at Middlebury, Vt. 

 H. W. Scott, Sec, Barre, Vt. 



Feb. 8, 9.— Wisconsin, at Madison, Wis. 



J. W. Vance, Cor. Sec, Madison, Wis. 



I^~ In order to have this table complete 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



OFFICERS FOR 1895. 



Pres.— R. F. Holtermann Brantford, Ont. 



Vice-Pres.— L. D Stilson York, Nebr. 



Secretary.- W. Z. Hutchinson... Flint, Mich. 

 Treasurer.— J. T. Calvert Medina, Ohio. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— Hon. E. L. Taylor. .Lapeer, Mich, 

 Gen'Ij Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago, 111. 

 147 South Western Avenue. 



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