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thing I have never had yet. The word "shook" expresses 

 something to me a little stronger than the word "shaken." 

 When Mr. Root told me that, I knew that there was some- 

 think that had shaken loose in his brain. If they have a seat 

 reserved in one of these places, say in a concert, there will 

 be laid down a little slip and on it marked, "Taken." Do you 

 think I would feel any more secure of that seat if it was 

 marked, "Took." [Laughter]. Now, I consider this, without 

 any joking, of enough consequence that we should spend a 

 little time upon it. If there is any reason why "shook" is 

 better than "shaken" I would like to hear it. One is good 

 English, the other is bad, and it seems to me that is enough 

 to settle the question, unless you can give some other very 

 strong reason. 



Mr. Dadant — In regard to this matter I think there is 

 a great deal in locality! [Laughter.] I am foreign born, but 

 when some of our Western Americans took a trip to Europe 

 I was with them, and I had occasion to say to an Englishman, 

 "Hurry up," and he said, "I suppose you mean "make haste." 

 Mr. Whitney — When I saw the words "shook swarm" I 

 thought the whole thing was wrong. What is a swarm? It 

 is bees in the air or in cluster. Then you can't make a shook 

 swarm or a shaken swarm. It is simply a colony of bees. 

 You can't shake them or have them swarm in the air or clus- 

 ter, so that it is not a swarm at all. 



Mr. Wheeler — I would like to know of how much money 

 value this is to us. We are here to learn something. I 

 didn't leave my work to come here to listen to sport. I came 

 here to learn something about bee-keeping. Now what does 

 this have to do with bee-keeping? 



Mr. Abbott — I used to teach school and they paid me $50 

 a month for teaching their children the correct use of the 

 English language. It must have had some value to me. But 

 I disagree with Dr. Miller that the use of the word "shook" 

 is not as correct as shaken." This is simply the invention of 

 a new condition of things, and new conditions of things are 

 creating words and phrases every day in America. I suppose 

 I could mention 50 that have been created within the last few 

 years. It is just as proper to apply "shook" to a new condi- 

 tion of things as "shaken;" and the words got into Dr. Mil- 

 ler's dictionary that way. 



Pres. York — This is one of the questions for diversion. 

 Now we will go on to something more solid. 



Mr. Wheeler — We have editors, such as Mr. Hutchinson ; 

 leave such things to him. We don't want to spend our time 

 here to-day on that. He will put that word in just as he 

 pleases when he gets home, anyway. 



ADVANTAGE OF SHOOK SWARMING. 



"What is the advantage of shook swarming?" 

 Mr. Hutchinson — I suppose primarily that the principle 

 advantage of this shook swarming is that we are able to have 

 the work gone on with without being there to see to it. We 



