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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 



Uncle lien's and let Aunt Mate and Glacl- 

 dis Maud (she is the six-months-old baby 

 that lias come to live with Uncle lien's folks) 

 see the kite. Then we took it over and 

 showed it to mamma, and sent messengers 

 np on the string'. The messenger was just 

 a little piece of pa])er with a hoie through it. 

 The end of the string is put through the hole, 

 and the wind spins the pai)er clear up to the 

 kite. Then we tied the kite-string to Iluber's 

 cart, and, sure enough, off started the cart 

 as if it were alive, and trundled away just 

 about as fast as Iluber could run, like a 

 thing of life. When the wind veered around, 

 the cart would run olf to one side of the 

 road, and run into the ditch, and upset ; and 

 then you should have heard him laugh 

 and " holler "' as he pulled it out. He got 

 so excited with the fun he was having that 

 I began to think he had better put the kite 

 away until some other day, and then a team 

 came along and was going to run over the 



whenever the kite seems to l)e getting too 



low. If that does not bring it up, pull 



your wagon backward until it comes up to 



a good height again. Now it will draw the 



wagon a good way before it gets down. 



if the wind is strong and steady, however, 



the kite will pull a cart or wagon at a pretty 



! good speed, and not come down at all. The 



; worst trouble about it is, if you want your 



I wagon to run on a traveled road the chang- 



I ing of the wind will pull it from one side to 



another. Perhaps a steering apparatus, such 



as they have on traction-engines, might iix 



this all right. 



While we were having our fun with it, a 

 man stopped and inquired how long before 

 I was going to have a kite hitched to our 

 market- wagon, so as to dispense with 

 horses. 



Well, we can send you a kite, all com- 

 plete, in a pasteboard tube, for just 10 cts.; 

 1 and if you want it by mail you will need to 



(•nUTKN-CEXT KITE FOJt TlIK -irXEXLLES. 



string, and then he was in about as much 

 trouble as a child often gets into. Why, he 

 cried as if that kite-string were worth a 

 hundred dollars, when a whole ball of it 

 costs only five cents at the counter store. 

 I wonder if older people don't sometimes 

 make a greater fuss about the loss of a small 

 amount of pi-operty. W^ell, before that 

 naughty team had run against the kite and 

 pulled it down, mamma came and showed 

 him that, by going backward, he could 

 raise the string out of their way. Is not 

 this another lesson to poor shortsighted, 

 worrying humanity V Mamma wound the 

 string up on a piece of stick, and the kite 

 came down careening and nodding, and 

 cutting up all sorts of antics, as if it were 

 a playful kitten instead of a few bits of in- 

 animate wood and paper and string. 



Now, whenever you want to make the 

 kite draw n cart, repieraber to stop the cart 



send .J cts. more for postage. We can send 

 them by freight or express, with other goods, 

 for 10 cts. And this reminds me, that three 

 more numbers of Gleaxings will finish the 

 year l.SK(>. As is customary, we will send it 

 the remainder of the year free to all those 

 who remit now for 1887. And as we don't 

 want to show any favors to neir subscribers 

 that we do not to old ones, we will send a 

 kite to every old subscriber who sends us 

 $1.00 for Gleanings for 1887, before Dec. 1, 

 always remembering that, if you want a 

 kite by mail, you must be sure to include 

 5 cts. to pay the postage. If new subscrib- 

 ers want a kite, they can get it by sending 

 us one more subscription instead of their 

 own. "We can furnish the kites at whole- 

 sale, 2") in a box, including one sample, aJI 

 finished and trimmed, ready for flight, for 

 8 cts. each, or an even S2.00 for the whole, 

 box and all, 



