Gleanings in bee culture . f a cent; but as our storyproceeds, we shall perhaps find out why he 1881 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 47 named just that exact amount. As for the bees,no time was to be lost; and as the offer wasimmediately accepted, he started in pursuit,while his neighbor resumed his occupationof nailing up the hog-pen. Somehow thathog-pen seemed to need a great amount oftixing to make it so the pigs wouldnt getout and make a general raid on the neighbor-hood every now and then. Off goesfriend M.\s coat and vest; and,with his eye on the l)ees and his feet any-where but on solid groun
Gleanings in bee culture . f a cent; but as our storyproceeds, we shall perhaps find out why he 1881 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 47 named just that exact amount. As for the bees,no time was to be lost; and as the offer wasimmediately accepted, he started in pursuit,while his neighbor resumed his occupationof nailing up the hog-pen. Somehow thathog-pen seemed to need a great amount oftixing to make it so the pigs wouldnt getout and make a general raid on the neighbor-hood every now and then. Off goesfriend M.\s coat and vest; and,with his eye on the l)ees and his feet any-where but on solid ground, lie starts off,down the hill back of the church. 3rR. 3iekky];axks after the bees. Now, since friend ]M. has become a bee-keeper he has improved in health l)y out-door exercise, until you would hardly recog-nize in him the same individual that he waswhen we first met him. In fact, so robusthas he become, that, when his foot hit on around stone which turned over, he tumbledflat, and rolled clear to the bottom of nUKKAir FOU THE IJKESi As he picked himself up at the bottom ofthe hill, and rubbed the sore places, lookingfirst one way and then the other, to collecthis ideas and get the points of the compass,the first words he heard were,— Hurrah for the bees I These words came from John, his neigh-bors boy. xVs he heard his father selling thebees to friend M., he set down his hive on thetop of the swill-pail, and watched earnestlyto see what M. was going to do with themafter they were bought. As he doffed hiscoat, John viewed the proceedings very in-tently, and was not slow in following afterthe decamping swarm. With his light sum-mer clothing, he very soon outran the ownerof the bees, and the shoutthat friend M. heard
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