August, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



655 



Around the Office — Continued 



children. I was awful nice to everybody 



that evening". Chested up considerably and 

 told one of my neighbors who chanced to 

 (liHip in that 1 didn't have to go to the gar- 

 den to hunt bugs any more — I had 'em fraz- 

 zled. And 1 just didn't go for about three 

 days. I put in the time telling- about the 

 nctory. Then about the third morning I 

 went. As I rounded the corner of the old 

 barn the whirr of wings sounded like a 

 covey of partridges going- out of a beechnut 

 grove. My ! but they had got fat — and 

 equally populations. I guess they had. 

 Yet they didn't till the garden so full but 

 that I could squeeze in and see that all that 

 was left of the squashvines looked like the 

 lilag-ree work of a 25 - cent " guaranteed 

 gold " breast-pin bought at a county fair. 

 Now, that's about all there is to this story, 

 except that I have grown cool and sus- 

 picious, and even haughtv toward " Uncle 

 Amos " as a bug exterminator. As I said 

 in the first jilace: There is a good deal 

 sometimes in knowing something lliat isn't 

 so — especially if you try it on. 

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Blessings on the f :^w true men of Ameri- 

 ca who have written to the Editors inter- 

 ceding for the Man-Around-the-Office lest 

 he be removed on out thru the back cover 



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