1902 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



205 





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dercurrents sometimes evade me. I 

 thought as how as I'd get to go to the 

 convention and drop onto some of the 

 wire pullin' but the trip was too much 

 for me. 



What d'ye think of Catnip for hon- 

 ey? Coin' to try it on a large scale? 

 Wal sir, I reckon you won't imless you 

 can write your name Vanderbilt Rocky- 

 fellow. The catnip seed market was 

 cornered long ago. Don't believe it? 

 Huh, just try to buy live seed reason- 

 able like- How do I know? Wal, I'm 

 old, but not dead yet. I'll send to 

 those of my friends who'd like to try 

 it small packets of seed at two bits the 

 package — while they last. For your 

 own information let me say that that 

 as the price nets nigh eight hundred per cent, 

 profit, and the supply is big enough to 

 last as long as is seemly, b'gosh! 

 Fact is Harry, this climate is all fired 

 and if I blow dust in your eye think o' debilitatin' and I want to buy a farm in 

 the beam in your neighbor's. So also the north woods and I reckon this cat- 

 doeth that ubiquitous "world" boiler nip fad will fetch it. Think I won t 

 of vours, but if ve have any considera- sell enough seed for that? Say, you re 

 ■ ' ' ' ■ '- . . . ■ . ■ giQ^y -^Yhy next fall I'll advertise for 



Dear Brother Hill: 



"I must have liberty 

 Withal as large a charter 



wind. 

 To blow on whom I please" 



tion for him ye'd better let on to him 

 to go easy in his raillery agin comb 

 foundation in box honey, and the 

 "gobs" it makes. The whole blessed 

 lot of manufacturers, their satellites and 

 hangers on will wipe the "world" up 

 with him. Nigh on to two pages of 

 such condemnation did the reckless boy 

 have in the Review- Oh yes, he's right 



Catnip Honey in my own patent sec- 

 tions and so get two booms. These 

 'ere bee chaps are "easy." dead easy. 



Let me give you a pointer: If you 

 want to win out do the oldest tricks in 

 the newest kind of ways. 



I 'low as how the great showman was 

 dead right when he said "the American 



Hum- 

 ind. 



John Hardscrabble. 



enough; but gosh! d'ye spose the name people like to be humbugged, 



of Greiner will save his scalp? "The bugged— he must a had bees m 



truth," ye know, "should not be spoken Yours as ever, 

 at all times" — it may hurt the "elect." 



And "the greater the truth the greater 



the libel" so let him be keerful. , <n>T 



I 'low as Nim Crinkle had a better Dr. J. B. Pons, author of Mysteries 

 line on the in'ards of things than did the of the Hive," now runnmg m the Span- 

 old Deacon, and Nim, you may remem- ish department of the Bee-Keeper, has 

 her, said there was an unholy, close cor- his home in Cienfuegos (meanmg, in 

 poration a-runnin' of the whole she- English, a hundred fires), and is estab- 

 hang. lishing an apiary of 200 colonies m El 



W^ell Harry you see I'm a-gettin' old— Valle del Infierno— Hell valley. The 



tho by the way you're a consumin' of doctor must be calculating to avoid any 



time iest as fast as I be— and these un- chances of loss bv chilled brood. 



