. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 299 conversation, makes every one think of him as a familiar friend. I hope it may be always so. If he should ever get to be "Mr. Root" with me, I don't think I should like him as well as I do " ; The principal thing that I remember about him on that first visit, is that I do not recall that during the 24 hours I was there he was engaged in killing cats, or tying tin-cans to dogs' tails. So I don't suppose he was worse than the majority of boys. Indeed, I suppose he was too busy in other directions to h
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 299 conversation, makes every one think of him as a familiar friend. I hope it may be always so. If he should ever get to be "Mr. Root" with me, I don't think I should like him as well as I do " ; The principal thing that I remember about him on that first visit, is that I do not recall that during the 24 hours I was there he was engaged in killing cats, or tying tin-cans to dogs' tails. So I don't suppose he was worse than the majority of boys. Indeed, I suppose he was too busy in other directions to have much time for such things. His father was A. I. Root. That's equivalent to. ERNEST R. ROOT. saying he was a hobbyist—a born hobby- ist. I am told that at a very early age he showed an extreme fondness for pictures—A. I.'s son, you see. As a boy, one hobby was machinery, and to him a w^ell-rigged water-wheel or windmill was the sum of earthly happi- ness. Later on, singly or combined, along with other hobbies, came mechan- ics, electricity, microscopy, bees, pho- tography and bicycles. In electricity to find himself the dis- coverer and Inventor of many things of real value, but on Informing himself more fully was somewhat chagrinned to find that he was neither an inventor nor discoverer, for all his new things were old. In spite of that, he still retains a fondness for everything connected with electricity. The use of the microscope, notwith- standing its injury to a pair of eyes none the best fitted for it, was pursued with zeal; and among other microscopic studies, he took up the anatomy of the bee, going so far as to publish two or three articles thereon, when the appear- ance of the magnificent work of Cheshire made him again feel that he was only working over old ground. To go back. In the year '81 he en- tered the preparatory department of Oberlin College, and left at the end of four years without graduating, bpiiig obliged to go home and take part of the burden t
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