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look you ill the eye and he couldu 't battle a 

 June zephyr. She wore the real pantaloons, 

 while he stuffed out very slightly an imita- 

 tion pair. She wore the boots and she was 

 also in the saddle, you bet. All together, he 

 looked like a lost cause or a dog with porcu- 

 pine quills in his nose — that's an awful sub- 

 dued look. But to get to it. The Mrs. 

 opened the ball, of course. She nearly filled 

 the office door when she bellowed out: "Is 

 this the place where they answer bee ques- 

 tions.^" I assured her that she was almost 

 at the exact center of the universe for infor- 

 mation about bees. Reaching behind her, 

 she yanked out her husband, and dragged 

 him to the front. "Now ask him what you 

 wanter know, ' ' she commanded of the poor 

 little atrophied remnant of what once had 

 been a man, and he obediently piped up: 

 "We've got two flocks of bees, and they've 

 swarmed. Don 't we want a swarm-catch- 

 er?" I said no, and told him how to capture 

 the swarms without that expense in so small 

 an apiary. "Ask him some more," she 

 sternly commanded, and gave his sleeve a 

 yank. "Then, say," he efforted again, 

 ' ' perhaps we need a coop and a cooper or 

 two!" Did he mean a hive and super or 

 two? I guess so, but don't know. That 

 poor little man! Held in leading strings! 

 Kept under! Not allowed out — not long 

 enough to get the names of things in his 

 little apiary! O women of America, remem- 

 ber my text: "Don't do it" — don't hen- 

 peck 'em. Wear 'em down to an early grave, 

 or end 'ni quick with a rolling-pin, but don 't 

 keep 'em around after they're really no 

 longer here. They look so — and they don 't 

 amount to anything, either. 



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The editor-in-chief of "Gleanings" is to- 

 day (Aug. 13) just back from the East, 

 where he has been attending a series of 

 beekeepers ' meetings. He doesn 't look as if 

 he got back any too soon. He also looks 

 as if he had been drawn thru a knot hole. 

 Looked at another way, he looks as if he 

 had been thru both the battle of Verdun and 

 Messines Eidge. Well, why? I am guessing 

 this is the wliyness of it. You see, at the 

 New York State Association of Beekeepers ' 

 Societies ' meeting on Aug. 3 he got up and 

 told about 13 and 15 cents being paid for 

 some extracted honey and a dim possibility 

 of even 20 cents being paid some day. 

 Great geewhillikins gee! "Old Selser" 



