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AMERICAN BKK JOURiNA. 



H ^~^ II II ll\ 



FROM THE STINGER. 



" Now a sin in the soul is precisely like de 



mule. 

 An' nobody'U play wid it onless he is a fool. 

 It looks so mitey innercent ; but honey, dear, 



beware ! 

 For altho' de kick is hidden, de kick is allers 



there." 



Like a cobbler, a bee has her wax and 

 awl, always handy. 



A bee drowned in its own honey may 

 be said to have met with a sweet death. 



An anonymous writer in a recent 

 number of Oleanings, has addressed an 

 open letter to our dear old friend Ramb- 

 ler, on the innumerable blessings that at- 

 tend a man who has entered wedlock. 

 The Stinger doubts that such a honied 

 letter was ever written by one of the 

 " kind-hearted sisters," and that if it 

 was written by such a person, The 

 Stinger would advise her to pack up her 

 trunk and start for California, where 

 she will find the Rambler ready to re- 

 ceive her. Who could resist the charms 

 of a lady who could write such a delicious 

 letter as the one the " anonymous " sis- 

 ter has addressed to our Californian 

 friend ? 



Speaking of the Rambler, reminds me 

 that many of his lady admirers forget 

 that that genial gentleman is a widower, 

 and that he is pretty well posted as 

 to all those nice things that a woman 

 can do in a house. He learned much 

 from the good woman that was his wife. 



Somehow I cannot leave the Rambler 

 without saying something more about 

 him. I remember being in a restaurant 

 with him and some other bee-keepers 

 one morning. We were waited upon by 

 a fair-haired damsel from some one of 

 the Germanic countries. She was fairly 

 good looking, and somehow or other she 

 did not pay much attention to the rest of 

 us, but seemed to take a fancy to Ramb- 

 ler, Now, I am going to tell a secret — 

 one which the good sister who wrote so 

 sweetly in Gleaninas will be, I am quite 

 sure, highly delighted to know. It is 

 this: 



Withal our Californian friend has been 

 in the toils before, he is yet susceptible 

 to the charms of a lovely woman. Ho 

 was not long discovering that the fair 

 waitress was trying to "make a mash " 



on him. He was too polite to repulse her 

 winsome ways. I won't say that bespoke 

 German to her, or in any way showed 

 that he was infatuated with her. I 

 might be telling more than my rambling 

 friend would like me to tell, if I did. If 

 I had gone back to that same restaurant 

 afterward, it would not have surprised 

 me one bit to have found him eating 

 pretzels and drinking lager beer with 

 the fair-haired girl above referred to. 

 But, before I forget, wouldn't it be 

 strange to see Rambler drinking beer ? 

 He might become as much of a Teuton 

 as A. I. Root, who avows himself to be 

 a pretzel eater ; but to drink beer ! Ah, 

 but what won't a man do when there is 

 a woman in the case ? Just think what 

 A. I. Root, too, might do under like 

 circumstances ! 



Mr. W. P. Root's reviews of bee-books 

 are very interesting in Gleanings, but 

 The Stinger was going to say that the 

 books to be yet reviewed will be pretty 

 ancient if the series of reviews have to 

 drag along as those that have already 

 been noticed, when Gleanings of Oct. 

 1st came to hand, and showed that the 

 ancient books were about exhausted. 

 Yet I would continue to read about these 

 books, even if the series ran into the 

 middle of next year, so pleased was I 

 with the way the writer reviewed them. 



Mrs. Harrison has found the three 

 C's for which she "highly prizes " honey, 

 and she tells about them briefly in Glean- 

 ings for Sept. 15th. They are "cakes, 

 company, and coughs :" Candidly can- 

 did, Mrs. H., but how about candy ? 



The same correspondent also remarks 

 in the same paper that it is extravagance 

 to cook with honey ; that she is satis- 

 fied if she can get honey for the outside 

 of her cakes, and not the inside. Cook- 

 ing with honey she considers to be one 

 of the lost arts. The Stinger is sorry 

 that Mrs. Harrison did not visit the 

 World's Fair, for she might have been 

 able to find the lost art, which she com- 

 plains of, in the Egyptian quarter in 

 Midway Plaisance. 



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