The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-02-27
FARM AND GARDEN.


One day Billy, who had been readin thai
poetry about the bee and the ant and sucl
Kings, KEEP a sayin it over til we oil got sicl
If hearin it, SO one time wen he came in the
Iron room and bust out with
How duth the little bzzy bee,
ny father he said William, that inseck la.
past tolably quiet mite, and is dom as we
Is cude be expected 1t is very good OF YOU
master to send you to inquire SO often, but il
$ a nuisance OF the same, SO | am about tC
ssue this bulletin, witch will save you any
urther tribble.
When he said that, my father pict up &
Daper waite and made like he was going tC
ling 1t, but Billy he improved the shinin by
lashin thru the dore into the passidge
/ hate bees cos some folks witch writes Is
blways crackin em up, like they was the
nose irdustrius and ordy and peasable and
clever things IN oil this worl, and little boys
md girls OF to be like EN-. But what If little
Boys and girls wude sting like they does!
They was shoemaker once witch was a re
publican, and he was vsitin' friend WITCH
lad hive Of bees, and his friend wos tellin
i'm the bees had a queen wich was big
at bee and diddent do no work, wien was
Jews to the shoe maker, and it made him an
nv. So he waited til he had good chance
nd he gave the hive spitefie kick and ran
way, and the las that was seen of that shoe
maker he was IL dancin' on hill, and looked
Ike he had hundred legs and arms, like the
pixies of a weel, and there was glory oil
GUN him, wIch was the sun a shinin on the
ces
The bunny witch is luke out of bee hives is
weet, but frute cake is the STUFF for me.
Bees wax, witch my mother uses wen she
ose the baby's froX, is nothing but jus hun
In ll.n npp,h had
yith The way the bees make wax is this
yay. A bee goes to -four and roles in 1t,
nd the dust sticks TO his legs and makes him
eel uncomfortable, and wen he can't stan 1t
o longer he goes back to the hive, and wen
C gifts in there the hol porter bee says boots
hen the boots bee comes and brushes the
ust off the bee witch rolled in the flours legs,
tut don't sweep it up, and so many goin in
nd out it gifts trempt into mud wich is wax.
But how they bores the siX.corner oggur,
nd were they gifts the trickle to put IN
IN, IS wot beats me.
MAY be you have hear about bee line.
Ven bee gifts his legs loded, like tole you,
nd wants brush up it flies roun and roun,
ittin high upper and high upper, oil the
me, til it sees witch way the hive is, and then
has wasted so much time it has got to fiji
nity strate to git home fore dark, and that is
bee line If it didn't think itself so one
erful clever it would start off to random
nd inquire the way, and git home lots
tucker and not so far to 60, but bees is bees.
)nly don't like 'em to be throde up to me
) if they knode it Of, and me and Billy was
fool
Last summer our dog Towser was lyin in
lie sun a trine to sleep, but the flies was that
ad he cuddent cos he had to cetch 'em, but
ime by bee lit on his mead, and was wok.
about like the dog was hisn. Towser he
ell his head still, and wen the bee was close
:. his nose Towser wInked at me- like he said
ou see wat this duffer is dom, he thinks
m lily of the vally witch assent opn yet,
ut you JUS wait till blossom, and you will
be sum fun, and sure enuf Towser opcnd his
houth very slo so as not to trten the bee,
nd the bee went inside Towser's mouth.
hen Towser he shet his eyes dreemy, and
is mouth too, and had begun to make peace
smile wen the bee stung him, and you
ever see lily of the vally ack. so in oil
bur lite,