TRAPPERS' CLAIMS 

 Bee Sawyer, and this done on his achicYement 

 is not dimmed or forgotten. Father was quite a 

 successful bee hunter and in early days kept 

 the home supplied with wild honey all the year 

 round and from him 1 got my early training in 

 bee hunting. Although I never hunted for bees 

 very much yet it is one of the sweetest hunts 

 that a man can engage in. I never found very 

 many bee trees and what 1 did find I found 

 mostly when I was not looking for them. When 

 a boy 1 used to go with Pather when he went 

 bee hunting. In the fall of the year after the 

 frost had killed the wild flowers the bees would 

 work on bait and by putting some honey-comb, 

 stuck on a stick, in some open place, then 

 watch for the bees, and if there are any bees 

 within a half mile they will come to the bait and 

 after they have loaded them.selves with honey 

 they will rise, circle around once or twice then 

 start straight for home. Then the hunter gets 

 the line on the direction of the tree. Possibly 

 many of you have heard the old saying, 



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