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CmmiM Beebm. 



Outside the Bee-Papers. 



Dr. Miller gleans very carefully " A- 

 mong tbe Bee-Papers." I am all the 

 time doing similar work outside the bee- 

 papers, and occasionally find something 

 well worthy of transference into the col- 

 umns of the American Bee Journal. The 

 poetic effusion which I copied from The 

 Outlook, and which appeared in the Bee 

 Journal of Oct. 3, is an example in point. 

 Here is a gem which I found in a recent 

 number of the New York Independent. 

 It is by Blanche Kevins, whose pardon I 

 ask for small alterations : 



THE SNAKE AND THE BEE. 



Snake and Bee go browsing over 

 Hill and valley, grass and clover. 



Eager each upon her quest. 

 Choosing that she loveth best. 



While within the Bee the food 

 Turns to honey, sweet and good. 



In the Serpent It will change 

 Into poison, bad and strange. 



Therefore, let the eyes that read 

 Note the moral and give heed: 



Life, which close environs thee. 

 Holds each possibility. 



May our days, then, fellow-man, 

 Bring forth honey if we can. 

 New York, N. Y. 



The Bull and the Bee$. 



A Canadian story by Prof. Charles D. 

 Roberts, of Windsor, Nova Scotia, ap- 

 pears in a recent number of the New 

 York Independent, and tells, in a very 

 graphic manner, how the occupants of a 

 bee-hive were the means of saving a 

 young girl from being gored to death by 

 a savage bull. Of course the story will 

 suffer by being abbreviated and con- 

 densed, but even when thus operated 

 on, enough of the interest will remain to 

 secure for it an attentive reading. 



Nannie Miller hardly knew whether 

 to consider herself a country girl or a 

 town girl. Her home was in the city of 

 Montreal, but she spent the summer and 

 autumn in New Hampshire, on her 

 grandfather Miller's farm. There was 

 one drawback to her enjoyment of coun- 

 try life, which was, that she was des- 

 perately afraid of cows, however quiet 

 they might be. On a neighboring farm 

 there was a Jersey bull famed for his 

 viciousness of temper. Of this bull the 

 children of the village near by spoke in 

 tones of terror, and Nannie had heard 

 dreadful tales of his ferocity. One sun- 

 ny afternoon Nannie started for the vil- 

 lage to mail a letter. She made her way 

 down the broad pathway, about 6(J 

 yards in length, which led through an 

 old-fashioned garden to the highway. 

 On either side of this path were clumps 

 of shrubs and flowers, rows of peas and 

 beans, thickets of artichoke and sun- 

 flower, and beds of vegetables. On one 

 side an array of bee-hives faced the path. 

 At the foot of the path a slight, white 

 gate led out to the road, through a hedge 

 of thorns and lilacs. 



After passing through the gate she 

 had not gone far before she heard a 



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