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GLEANINGS IN UEE CULTURE. 



Nov, 



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in stocklslxi dittei-ent books, as lollovvs; viz.: 

 Sheer Oft, The Giant - Killer, The Roby 

 Family, Rescued Jrom Egypt, and Ten Nights in 

 a Bar-Room. 



' A chiel's aniang ye takin' notes; 

 An' faith, he'll prent it." 



T SUPPOSE, little friends, you would ex- 

 M pect that Iluber would be a temperance 

 M boy, without doubt. Well, I think he 

 '^ will be ; but Uncle Hen (that is Neigh- 

 bor IL) jokes about the wonderful pro- 

 ficiency he shows in getting corks out of 

 bottles and jugs. He will take his thumb- 

 nails and take the cork out when almost 

 anybody else would give it up. A few days 

 ago he got at oiu- jug of boiled cider, picked 

 the cork out, and as he had been quite still 

 for some time, his mother thought best to 

 hunt him up. She found him dipping a 

 clothespin into the mouth of the jug, and 

 then let ting the cider drop off into his mouth. 

 Next time she wanted the clothespins she 

 thought someliow they seemed not to hold 

 out, and she went to the boiled-cider jug, 

 and upon investigation found 21 clothespins 

 in the boiled cider. Next day I found him 

 with a bottle of ink and a pen and some pa- 

 per, writing a letter. I knew the ink had 

 been corked tight, and I pushed the cork in 

 strong, and then watched to see how lie 

 managed to get it out. His thumb-nails did 

 the business. He is getting now so he 

 copies, or imitates, rather, what he hears. 

 Two phrases seem to be common in our 

 household. One is, " Oh my!'' and the other 

 is, "Wyee!" He has got the two mixed, 

 and his" favorite exclamation is, '' Oh wy!" 



A few days ago he was out riding with us, 

 and we didiiot get liome until after dark. 

 As we passed tluougli town it was dark, and 

 he was asleep. His mother said she would 

 wake him carefully, without intending to 

 see what he would say. As he opened his 

 blue eyes. si)read out before him were hun- 

 dreds of torcli-liglits. moving like so many 

 fire-flies, with bands of luusic accompanving. 

 He looked a niiimtf. and then burst out,"" Oh 

 wyl buniy biiiiil"" I suppose he thought the 

 burning stumps were out on a spree. When- 

 ever his mother hears " oh wyl" long drawn 

 out, she runs to see what mischief there is 

 under way. A day or two ago she heard it, 

 and ran for the dining-room to see what 

 called it forth. He had climbed up to where 

 the ink was, got a bottle full, and, not find- 



ing any pen, he held up his hand, cup- 

 shaped, and poured it full of ink. The 

 sight of the ink in his little fat " paddie '' 

 l)iought forth the expression, and mamma 

 was glad she got there just when she did. 

 Now, may b3 many of your little brothers 

 and sisters do lots of things funnier than 

 Huber; and when you write next, you can 

 tell us about it. "_ 



I wish to tell the children who write for Glean- 

 i^vGS, that if they wish to make a nice scrap-book, 

 they can have, instead of " stick-me-together," the 

 gum from peach and cherry trees; put into a bot- 

 tle, add a little rain water to dissolve the g-um. 

 This will stick paper tog-ether nicely. Apply with a 

 small brush. Yon see, children, this is cheap, and 

 easy to be had. This you can g-et without money 

 and without price, and it is just as good as that you 

 buy in town. Try It, but do not get it too thin. 



Ashland, O., Oct. 23, 1884. A. H. Baum. 



A VERY SHORT I.ETTEK. 



I am a farmer-boy; my sister wrote you a letter a 

 short time ago, and last night she got the book you 

 sent her. I like it very much. W. N. Rriohtman. 



Granger, Minn., Sept. 1, 1884. 



SUCCESSFUL WINTERING. 



My papa keeps bees. He has 24 swarms. They came 

 through the winter safe. We winter them out of 

 doors. My father makes his own hives and sections. 

 I do not like bees when they sting me. 



Carrie Wilms, age 8. 



Yoc'.imtown, Pa., March 4, 1884. 



the runaway queen.s. 



Well, Uncle Amos, is your wheelbarrow empty? 

 If not, I should like Silver Keys. My pa keeps bees. 

 He got four queens from you; two of them went 

 away, and took the bees with them. 



Rockdale Mills, Pa. Olive E. Graves. 



Friend Olive, the wheelbarrow is not emp- 

 ty, but we are just about out of Silver Keys. 

 We have plenty of other books. 



HONEY that will NOT CANDY. 



In the spring of 1882, papa and Uncle Amos bought 

 four swarms of bees. Increased to 14; took 50 lbs. 

 comb honey, and 550 of extracted, principally from 

 hearfs-ease. Uncle Amos put some In bottles, 

 without scaling, which he kept 18 months, without 

 without any signs of candying. None of the honey 

 we kept that season candied. 



Quitman, Mo. Nora D. Beach, age 8. 



FROM the little GIRL WHO GOT ITER FATHER TO 

 STOP USING TOBACCO. 



I received the smoker all right, and like it very 

 well, and I hope my father will never chew again. 

 If he does, I will send you the price of the smoker. 

 Lizzie A. Haijley. 



Greenfield, la., Oct. 13, 1884. 



Well done, Lizzie. If all the little girls in 

 our land were as anxious that their papas 

 should be straight clean men, I shouldn't 

 wonder if it made quite a difference with 

 some of us. 



UNA MAY'S LETTER. 



My pa has 6 bee-hives; he sa.vs that this has not 

 been a very good year for bees to make honey, but 

 he got some very nice white-clover honey last June. 

 When they swarmed, then he cut out the queen- 

 cells and put them back, and gave them more room, 



