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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov 



correspondence soon resulted in putting me 

 in possession of a queen that cost $20.00. 

 From that time to the present I have had 

 more or less correspondence witli friend L., 

 and I most heartily concur in all that friend 

 Cook has said in regard to him. 



A NOTE OF JOY. 



FOLLOWING UP BEE-LINES; A GLIMPSE AT 

 CHADDOCK FAMILY. 



jY^ KAR FRIENDS:— You have been called upon 

 A ql on dififerent occasions to mingle your tears 

 w^ with mine, and the response has been prompt 

 '-*^ and fervent; and now, when my heart is 

 glad, I ask you to share my joy. Last Sun- 

 day I went to camp-meeting; and after the sermon 

 in the big tent they had a little prayer-meeting. 

 They sang "God l)e with you till we meet again," 

 then the hcait of the vast throng knelt down and a 

 dozen voices prayed aloud, all at the same time; 

 then they stood up and sang " God be with you till 

 we meet again," the same song, and all the folks 

 shook hands with each other, laughing and singing 

 all tlie time— then they jumped; men took hold of 

 each other's hands, and jumped up and down; men 

 clasped men around the neck, and wheeled around 

 like dancers in a waltz; women embraced women, 

 and fell on their necks; it seemed as if a hundred 

 l)eople were holding up one hand, and shouting; 

 then they would all break loose from their waltz- 

 ing and jumping, select new partners, and go 

 through with the same motions with some one else. 

 This performance lasted tifteen or twenty minutes; 

 and the only song they sang was, "God be with you 

 till we meet again." Well, I do not feel quite as 

 happy as those camp-meeting folks did, though 1 <!<> 

 feel like shaking hands with everybody, but I'm 

 not going to do any waltzing nor jumping. 



THE CHADDOCK FAMILY WATCHING THE BEES. 



About a month ago I was resting with my head 

 toward the telephone window, when 1 heard the 

 bees roaring. T went out to them, and saw that 

 they were working joyfully; and I called Mr. Chad- 

 dock out to see which way they were going, so that 

 1 could find out what they were working on. He 

 came out, and stood looking up with one hand 

 raised to shade his eyes. Then Minnie came out to 



look, and she said that we could see better by look- 

 ing through a newspaper rolled up in the shape of 

 a spy-glas.s, and she made a tube of the paper she 

 held in her hand, and looked through it. Then Jes- 

 sie came out with the dish-pan in one hand and the 

 dish-cloth in the other— she was just emptying the 

 dish-water, and Sarah, seeing us all looking at some- 

 thing, came out with a load of stove-wood in her 

 arms, to look too. Then Harry came, leading Gyp 

 with a string, and looked; and cousin Em and her 

 beau from Bureau Co. left the hammock and came 

 out to help us look. The young man in the dis- 

 tance, with the fan in his hand, is the beau, and the 

 curly-headed girl at his side is cousin Em. After we 

 had looked awhile we found that part of them went 

 north and a part went east, and Mr. Chaddock said 

 that he had seen them working on the red clover in 

 the east field a few days before, but had forgotten 

 to mention it, and he said that he supposed they 

 were getting honey from the smartweed in the 

 north cornfield. Then he went out to work, and 

 Minnie went back to her reading. Jessie put away 

 her dish pan, Sarah carried in her stove -wood, 

 and the lovers went back to swing in the ham- 

 mock; but Harry and Gyp and I went up to the 



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UARKY, GYP, AND I. 



north field to see if the bees were working there. 

 We found them thick on the smartweed, which 

 grew as high as my shoulders, in places. Last week 

 I took oflt' a case of honey, and we are all sweetened 

 up; the hives are heavy with honey, and the ques- 

 tion of " what shall I do with my bees?" is settled. 



Vermont, 111. Mahala B. Chaddock. 



My good friend, 1 am afraid that your pic- 

 ture of the camp-meeting is not calculated 

 to inspire the world at large with reverence 

 and respect for God's chosen people. If the 

 men who took hold of each other's hands, 

 and jumped up and down, afterward pulled 

 out their pocket-books and settled up un- 

 paid debts, principal and interest, it was in- 

 deed a fitting time for song and rejoicing. 

 Yes, the whole multitude might have leap- 

 ed for joy to a very good purpose ; and if 

 the women who embraced each other, and 

 wept on each other's necks had long been 

 estranged l)y some neighborhood quarrel, 

 and this was a time for each one to ask each 

 other's forgiveness, and for genuine repent- 

 ance for past harsh words and uncharitable 

 thoughts, then I too would have felt like 

 shouting and leaping for joy. Now, al- 

 though you do not tell us any tiling about 

 bringing forth 'Mruitsmeet for lepentance," 



