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shust vill dot shed pefore I cood got 

 oudt o' dot. De air vas so dick mit pees 

 you cooden't shtir him mit a shpoon. I 

 cooden't hear, nor see, nor veel, nor 

 shmell anyding but pees. I shust run 

 mit all mine veet und schreara vor 

 "Fritz !" 



Fritz vas goomin along oop mit de 

 blow. He see me und de pig schmoke, 

 und he tot dot house vas afire; und I 

 vas so grazy mit dose pees I tot so doo. 

 Fritz run shust like dunder und light- 

 nings right into de middle of dot shed ; 

 put he nefEer shtoped to put dot vire out. 

 I neflfer gan dell how it vas, but Fritz 

 got mad, und I got mad, und der pee^ 

 vas mad alreaty yet, und so ve all quar- 

 reled to gedder. I told Fritz dot der 

 nex dime I vas oxperiencing mit mine 

 pees, to shtay mit der fieldt vare he pe- 

 long, und not goom around bicking up 

 droubles mit me. Fritz, he shust vas so 

 mad dot he say somedings dot I vont 

 dell. 



Nex mornin ven Fritz vas gone, I 

 peeked into dot shed mit mine von eye 

 vot I got leff, und da vas so quiet und 

 nice dot I say mit myself : "Gusty, you 

 aindt pooty shmart mit pees, but I dinks 

 you petter not geef up alreaty yet." So 

 I make de piggest shmoke you eflfer saw 

 mit dry bine shticks und vet shtraw. 

 Some leedletobacco,doo. Denlshmoked, 

 und shmoked, und shmoked, dill I 

 cooden't see mit mine eye. An da all 

 shtayed mit dot parrel like a leedle poy 

 mit a vipping. I took der hammer und 

 ax, und my pig putcher-knife again, und 

 vent at it. 



I cut de gome loos vrom der nex 

 shtave, und bry him oflf, dill I haff leedle 

 more as haff all off. I laid von of dose 

 vrames on mine old dable, und goes to 

 de pees und cut avay a crate pig bease 

 of comb vot vas hanging dare shust so 

 nice. Den I dakes him do der dable und 

 mit mine putcher-knife, made him vlt 

 dot vrame, und mit a good bease of vire 

 und couple or dree leedle nails I make 

 him shtay dare. Shust drive in doo 

 nails — von on von eend dop-bar, und von 

 on odder eend bottom. Den put in de 

 bease of gome and fasten von eend of de 

 vire to de nail on dop-bar ; den vind de 

 vire round doo dree couple o' dimes ; 

 den fasten de odder eend to de odder 

 nail. I hang him in de hive, und dots 

 all mit him. 



De nex biece I dook out vas lots off 

 pees on. I hole dem ofer de shraoke 

 von leedle minute, und den prush dem 

 in de hive mit de gome I shust make. I 

 drimed him down und vired him in a 

 vrame doo. I had doo hives und kept on 

 putting shust so much gome, pees an 



prood in von as in de odder dill I hafl 

 dem full, for I neffer had seen a queen, 

 und I vasn't bresented dot da, needer. 

 As I vas at vork at it I foun goot many 

 bieces vot vas doo shmall doo fill der 

 vrame, so I biece doo or tree togedder 

 und di dem in mit vire. 



Py peing careful I got tru alright, 

 mit doo hives full of pees und gome, 

 und lots off nice bieces off gome honey 

 beside. 



Ven I vent out dot afternoon, da vas 

 at vork like efferyding, und nex veek, 

 ven I look, dose vrames und gomes vas 

 shust so nice as neighbor Hans's, und I 

 put mine apron ofer mine hedtund look, 

 und say mit myself: "Der pees are 

 pooty shraart alreaty yet, Gusty, und 

 you vill pe a goode vile to learn vat da 

 knows, and pea peeman doo." 



Gusty SchrA'EDEr. 



Hansburg, Westconsian. 



COMVEBiTION DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 

 1894. 

 May 3.— Connecticut, at Hartford, Conn. 

 Mrs. W. E.Riley, Sec, Waterbury, Conn. 



May 15. — Northern Illinois, at Guilford, 111. 

 B. Kennedy, Sec, New Milford, 111. 



Aug.l6.— East Tennessee, at Whitesburg,Tenn 

 H. F. Coleman, Sec, Sneedville, Tenn. 



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 



Pres.— Emerson T. Abbott St. Joseph, Mo. 



Vice-Pres.— O. L. Hershiser Buffalo, N. Y. 



Secretary— Frank Benton, Washington, D. C. 

 Treasurer— George W. York-.-Chicag-o. Ills. 



National Bee-Keepers' Union. 



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

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

 147 South Western Avenue. 



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