The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1885-09-03
A Troublesome Bee.

A little yellow busy bee, which had
been loafing the greater portion of the
day around the strip bottle in neigh
boring soda shop, CHANGED to stroll
into 8 shaying-saioon on Common
street, and in very short time proved
that a small thing can cause = great
deal OF trouble.
While the German proprietor of the
barber-shop was shaving a fat man,
and saying: at vas q warm day, and if
it don't GET cooler We me!ts, the bee
came and buzzed around the ear Of the
fat man, who became nervous and
slapped at it viciously. Then the bee
scared around in short circle. and en-
deavored to make Il landing and rest
on the German barber nose. who in
turn wiped the ar with both hands III
a foolish attempt TO Kill the annoying
insect, but the bee darted at him, and
he lodged behind the chair and yelled
to the shop boy: Hans, come here
right away und make de bee 90 away"
Hans obeyed instructions, and seein z
the bee humming lazily around, he
opened on it with wet towel, and the
first swash he made knocked a couple
of globes off the gas-iixture, and the
bee retaliated by singing him on
the lip. This excited Hans, who
charged around the shop after the bee,
and worked his towel so vigorously
that he succeeded IN whacking every
customer that occupied chair and
caused an irate Frenchman to exclaim
''Sacre! what for you beet me when
you knock at re leetle bug. Aha, BY
i Il
About this time the bee, who should
have been employing his time sucking
flowers, saw that he had stirred up the
shop, so he flew along the line of chairs.
and coming to a balG-headed man tried
TO Craze around on his pate, but the at
tending barber struck at him with q
hairbrush, whereupon the bee hit him
under the LETT ear, and then charged
the whole shop. 1t buzzed in q way
that indicated it meant business, and
after tapping the Frenchman on the
| nose, the German proprietor over the
eye, and the tat man on the chin, il
managed to array the wounded men
against it. The Erenchman who was
wild with rage, clutched a busting.
brush, the fat man broom, and the
German barber an umbrella. Each
man kept his eye fixed on the bee, and
noticed nothing else, and struck at il
with all their strength. The first vol
ley of blows aimed 1T the agile honey,
maker resulted in the Frcnchmau be
ing knocked down by the fat man:
broom, while the barber peeled all the
skin off his nose with the umbrella
The excitement was so great and The
fight was so hot that neither the bar
! Der nor the fat man noticed that the
Frenchman had received the blows
| hit with their eyes still fixed on the
bee, and mistaking the yclls of the
PROSTATE frenchman for encouraging
shouts, they continued to strike at the
bee with all their strength, which in
variably missed the bee and hit the un
fortunate man on the floor, and haC
not a policeman, attracted by hoWl>
and the sound of breaking glass. en-
tered the shop, he would have beer
beaten to pulp. 1t is necessary TO say
that the bee, as soon as it grew tired o
| parching the head OF the whole crowd
escaped without a bruise, and left The
German barber and fat man to explain
matters with the unfortunate French
man.-Ae1O Orleans Times DcmVcrtI.