1902 



THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



11 



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a week or so. Then you see when I 

 ship a queen I always picks one with a 

 ample sack, pour some royal jelly in it, 

 and she's sure to go through all right. 

 I thought that out while lying awake. 

 Then I always picks up bees as I 

 see backed into a cell. Them's the 

 boys as has been getting pollen and 

 thev makes the best attendants. And 

 too, it's better for them to be picked 

 up by the head than the wings. You 

 see they can't then spill any of the 

 honey from their honey sacks and a 

 pickin' of 'em up by the wings strains 

 the muscles of their backs and is lia- 



Dear Bro. Hill: l^jg ^^ develop lumbago, ruining 'em 



Talk about a-taking off of your coat for future use even if they don't die 



and a-rollin' up of your sleeves to get in transit. 



a ready to do things, why 'taint in it The Humane Society oughter get af- 



with ex-manager Bro. Abbott, who ter those boys who don't take care of 



has even a taken off his whiskers in them attendants 



a 



preparin' for the fray, and say he's 

 just a whooping things. He's a-makin' 

 our "humble servants" look like thirty 

 cents. Gosh, but how he shows up 

 their wire pullin'. If they ever should 



that come with a 

 queen. It's cruel to turn 'em loose in 

 a cold and heartless world to shift for 

 theirselves with neither home or moth- 

 er. It's agin natur', and 'taint politic 

 neither. Like as not they'll get in 



get to their feet long enough to hit som'ebody's bonnet and make 'em vote 



back, how they would slug him. Just against the meek and lowly, though 



tell Emerson to rip along and never thoughtless gent as turned them adrift, 



fear, for their footing is too uncertain, him as holds office by divme right. 



It's only the wicked who stand on slip- Tell Emerson it is sacrilegious to try 



pery places; t'other kind of folks can't, to^preyent their continooin' m^office. 

 and you know all those dearly beloved 



insist that they ain't wicked a little bit, 

 and they ought to know. Modesty is 

 a great thing, a very great virtue. I'm 

 a modest man myself as you well know, 

 Harry. 



While I was a reading of that sim- 

 posyum on shocked swarms, I most 

 choked a-laughin' over the boys as 

 thought it something brand new. Why, 

 sir, my granddad did that afore I was 

 born and my earliest remembrance of 



Ah. I'm tired of hearin' the boys say bees was his a-tryin' to shooken a 



my umbillycussed queens aint no bet- 

 ter than theirs without the cuss. Why 

 my queens have it so perfectly develop- 

 ed that it forms a mighty cute little 

 sack and they carry their extra food 

 about in it. Yes siree! The idea of a 

 calling queens good that leave the um- 



shooked swarm from a shaky gum, and 

 the blam'ed thing shaked in two, a-let- 

 tin' all the combs and a whole passel 

 of mad bees into a heap on the ground. 

 Gosh, I can feel them stings yet. 

 Granddad quoted scripter faster than 

 any of the boys do it now. You see 



billycuss a ramifyin' through the royal the shaky shooked gum was too long, 



jelly in the cell after they've a left it. slim and tall and wouldn't let the bees 



Why sir, my queens carry off the jelly be shooked out easy, so granddad was 



in their sacks and use it for lunch for a thumpin' it on a springy fence rail, 



