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AROUND THE OFFICE 



M.-A.-O. 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE October, 1917 



Well, I am still here despite what I re- 

 ported about ' ' Old Selser ' ' in our last, but 

 it's by a mighty small majority. T have 

 beeii having to maneuver for position con- 

 stantly since Sept. 1. For what do you 

 think! The very day that the first copy of 

 the September number of Gleanings was off 

 the press (containing, as you know, some 

 references of mine to the aforesaid and his 

 honey troubles in New York State), who 

 should land right here in the office but Mr. 

 Wm. A. Selser, Esq., of Philadelphia, Pa.? I 

 went fishing the rest of that day and all of 

 the next, hoping he would get out of town. 

 But he didn't. I couldn't play hooky any 

 longer without a salary cut, so I came out 

 of the bushes., Did I get "stang?" I did. 

 Then I got stang some more and some more. 

 I also learned distinctly from several sources 

 that Wm. A. Selser had been associated with 

 the Eoot company for nearly 30 years, never 

 in the penitentiary, and that I would have to 

 put on the soft pedal hard — whatever that 

 means — whenever I might feel like taking 

 his name in vain. So I take it barck — be- 

 cause I have to (censored) it! When 



he arrived the other day, no one. could tell 

 whether it was baggage or a human being 

 getting off the car, but it moved right 

 toward the office and eventually proved to 

 be Mr. Selser, Esq., and his handbags, that 

 he set out to prove were loaded up to the 

 nozzle with ammunition to fight for higher 

 prices for honey for the beekeeper. He sayr. 

 he is State Inspector for Pennsylvania and 

 a beekeeper of long standing, and he told 

 me properly and emphatically he was foi' 

 the beekeeper every time. I told him to 

 never mind and not to unload any more 

 stuff out of those bags and I would take his 

 word for it. I have made it a lofty and un- 

 shakable principle thruout all of life's vicis- 

 situdes to say 'most anything or take 'most 

 anything back rather than take a licking. 

 (Addendum — No fooling, I don 't think Sel- 

 ser is so awful bad.) 



Look ahere! A lot of you fellows who 

 are piling onto my back all to oncet can 

 just pile off. In these days of cabbage- 

 worm affliction, hay fever and small honey 

 crop, I am not feeling like taking any more 

 than I have to. I tell you I have had about 

 enough between squash bugs, skunks in my 

 apiary, cabbage worms and ragweed with- 

 out a lot of you fellows trying to break 

 down my salary communication trench with 

 the A. i. Eoot Co. by bombarding "Uncle 

 Amos" and other editor Roots with poison- 

 GAS letters agin me. To particularize: 

 Some good old saint up at Little Britain, 

 Ont., in all good faith, writes inquiring 

 "what account does M.-A.-O. expect to give 

 for all his idle words." M.-A.-O. ain't 



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