Septkmber, 1917 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



733 



Around the Office — Continued 



jests than my eye fell on the Stover Api- 

 aries advertisement; and, feeling rather 

 happy over that one about old Mr. Eoot 

 'having his eye on her,' I bought one dozen 

 queens of the Stovers. It is an ill-wind, 

 etc., you know." I've nothing against the 

 Stover apiaries yet; but if they don't hold 

 out enough from what they pay the Eoots 

 for advertising to give me a commission on 

 those 12 queens, I'll list them right along- 

 side the editorial Eoots and begin waitin '. 



The hat, of which a picture is printed 

 in the center of this portentous paragraph, 

 was one worn by Editor E. E. Eoot during 

 the course of a bee misunderstanding in which 

 he animatedly engaged at about 6 p. m. July 

 2. The little specks to be seen on the crown 

 of this chapeau are not hayseed nor yet 

 ostrich plumes. They are detached and 

 withered bee-stingers hors de combat. There 

 were 127 of these battle banners, by actual 



Stinger Trimmed. 



count, sticking in that hat-crown when Mr. 

 Eoot laid down the red-hot gauge of busy 

 battle and hied himself to his quiet home 

 via a doctor 's office. The apiary mistake 

 wasn't his. He went in to save the day — 

 and did it gloriously; but, as they say, 

 "he got his." Oh, he did! he got it the 

 durndest. The only comment I have to 

 make at this time is that I recall this same 

 E. E. Eoot some years ago giving a lecture 

 and demonstration on the gentleness of bees 

 up in the good old Medina Congregational 

 church — and I believed him then. THEN. 

 And wasn 't that a holy place to try to put 

 that stingless stuff across? I wot it so. 

 Poor old Uzzah was called hence indefinitely 

 and hasn 't reported since for just thought- 

 lessly touching the Ark of the Covenant in 

 trying to keep it from tipping over. Suppos- 

 ing he had tried to pull off a "stingless" 

 bee demonstration in it — and had got stung 

 ad infinitum while he was propounding the 

 stingless, too! I don't want to make E. E. 

 Eoot remorseful the rest of his life or his 

 old age unhappy; but I had thought on these 

 things, and don't see why I shouldn't now 



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