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M.-A.-0. 



A gasoline - engine manufacturer claims 

 now to have heard from Emmet Bumpus, the 

 same who wrote a certain beekeepers' supjiiy 

 house about his " extrackter " with no 

 handle. First came a telegraph day message 

 followed by a letter. So here follow more 

 of E. Bumpus: 



Mildew Hollow, Mich., Oct. 22, 1917. 

 The Star Engine Co., 

 Detroit, Mich. 

 Cannot eet engine stopped that runs honey-ex- 

 tiactor. What shall I do ? Both hands of myself 

 and wife also all blisters. Still she runs like a dpvil. 

 Answer quick. As I have twenty words more will 

 say that I will write and tell you all about it. i^nly 

 answer quick. Emmet Bumpus. 



The Star P^ngine Co., 

 Detroit, Mich. 



Doer Sirs : — Sum time ago i swopped my huny 

 extrackter what yoo turn with a crank for a frixtion 

 drive masheen that is run with vnin of these here 

 srasalene enjints, i red all the directions and then 

 tried to start the enjin but the thing wouldent start, 

 i munkied about 2 hours and well into noon until my 

 wife she give me fits fer getting all dobbed up with 

 greese and dirt and late for dinner to boot which she 

 thinks is an awful crime, after dinner i red the di- 

 rections agen and find out i have forgot to put in any 

 gasalenc. So i goes to my tin lizzy and gets about a 

 kwart and then she runs o. k. she is still rtmniiig. 

 i tried to take a holt of the wheel to stop her an my 

 wife she tried to and we each tried toogether at the 

 same time but no yoose. i see that it is marked on 

 the side 1 Vo horse-power so we have give up trying 

 to get it stopt. the tank is still V2 full of gasoline 

 so it will run about •'5 hours yet. when yoo get this 

 letter send us a telegraf at wunce, telling us how to 

 stop said enjun. i have just desided to send yoo a 

 telegraph myself, as it will get to yoo kwicker, so by 

 the time yoo get this letter j'oo wont need t-o send 

 another telegraf. my wife she is still trying to get 



the d • thing stopt. i tell her she is a foole to 



munky with masheenery what she don't understand 

 and she tells me to shut my fase, so yoo see that i.s 

 what a man gets for trying to keep his wife from 

 getting hurt and mebbe crippled up for life, wimmin 

 never can understand until to late, and then they 

 blame yoo for what is there own fault. 



hoping yoo are the same, i am 

 yoors truly, 



Emmkt Bumpus. 



P. S. — my wife she got it stopt after all. she 

 turned it upside down and all the gasalene run out 

 and the wheels hit the floor and it kept going till it 

 bumped agaiust the wall. 



Some evil-minded genius of a beekeeper 

 wrote M.-A.-O. recently asking me if I 

 couldn't entangle Dr. C. C. Miller in a verbal 

 stand-up-and-knock-down with some other 

 disputatious sunofagon of a beekeeper some- 

 where. I have lost the letter, but it seemed 

 to mean that the writer would rather see 

 Dr. Miller performing in a verbal combat 

 with some poor galoot of a beekeeper who 

 didn 't know enough not to, than he would 

 to attend a country circus and stay for the 

 10c concert after the main show. 

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This Around-the-Office department, with 

 its epileptic cats, fishing-tackle, skunks, and 

 Mel Pritchard, will turn up something use- 

 ful yet, in spite of itself, for here comes 

 G. II. Parker, of Palmyra, N. Y., who writes 

 as follows: "In the November issue of 

 Gleanings M.-A.-O. tells about skunks in an 



