Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-08-27
A TROUBLESOME BEE.
1t Causes a Commotion in a Barber
shop.

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4 little yellow busy bee, which hac
bem loafng the greater portion of the
day around the sirup bottles in neigh
boring soda shop, chanced to stroll
into a shaYing>saloon on Common
street, and in a very short time proved
that small thing can cause a great
deal of trouble.
While the German proprietor of the
barber shop was shaving a fat man,
and saying, ''It vas warm day, and
if it don't get cooler We melts," the
bee came and buzzed around the ea1
Of the fat man, who became nervous
and slapped at ii furiously. Then the
bee scared around in short circle,
and endeavored to make a landing
and rest on the German BARRIERS nose,
WHO In turn wiped the air with both
hands in a foolish attempt to kill TIE
annoying insect, but the bee darted
al him and he lodged behind the chair
and yelled to the shop boy. ''Hans,
come here right away and make de
bee go away" Hans obeyed instruc-
tions, and seeing the bee humming
lazlly around, he opened on it with a
wet towel. and the first swash he made
knocked couple of globes off the
gas fixtures, and the bee retaliated by
singing him on the Jip. 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 occupi
ed chairs, and caused an irate French
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yoN heet me when you knock at ze
leetle bug. Aha! by gar, don't do Eat
some more"
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 bald-headed
man tried to Craze around on his pate,
out the attending barber struck at
him with hairbrush, whereupon the
bee hit hin under the left ear, and
then charged the whole shop. It
buzzed ia way that indicated it meant
business, and after tapping the French
man on the nose, the German pro
prietor over the eye, and the fat man
on the chin, it managed to array the
wounded men against it. The French
man, who was wild with rage, clutch~
ed dusting brush, the fat man a
broom, and the German barber an
umbrella. Each man kept his eye
fixed on the bee, and noticed nothing
else. and struck at it with all their
strength. The first volley of blows
aimed at the agile honeymaker result>
ed in the Frenchman being knocked
down by the fat mans broom, while
the barber peeled all the skin off his
nose with the umbrella. The excite
ment was SO great and the fight was
so hot that neither the barber nor the
fat man noticed that the Frehchman
had received their blows, hit with
their eyes still fixed on the bee, and
mistaking the yells of the PROSTATE
Frenchnlan for encouraging shouts,
they continued to strike at the bee
with all their strength, which invari~
ably missed the bee and hit the un-
fortunate man on the floor, and had
not a policeman attracted by howls
and the sound of breaking glass, en-
tered the shop, he would have been
beaten to a pulp It is necessary to
say that the bee, as soon as it grew
tired Of parching the head of the whole
crowd, escaped without a bruise, and
left the German. barber and the fat
man to explain matters with the un~
fortunate FrenchmaA.