The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-26

sharp ak to gather wild honey. The
pleasant. sunny days of the fall Is the
time for 1t. The proper way, to proceed
is to select a wooded tract where flowers
were plenty and where you have known
bees to have been humming during the
summer. Then grind your ak. take some
matches and little honey. and go to
the woods you selected beforehand.
Bees make their honey in the hollow
top of dead tree and they usually take
the highest one they can find. The hunt
er's object is TO find that three, cut 1t
down and rob the bees of the fruit of
their summers toll. The only way 10
find the tree is to follow any bees that may
be flying around. If there are none out
then the hunter must entice them out
To do this he collects some pine knots
and builds a flre. On a tin he has for the
purpose he burns some of the honey he
has for bait. If there are any bees with
In smelling distance this will bring them
out. Sometimes only lone bee will
come Then Is when an expert hunter is
needed
He must follow that bee through the
woods until 1t leads him to the tree where
the honey is No person but a woods
man can do this. A bee is such a small
object that 1t is easily lost among the
trees but with trained eyes and ears tho
bee hunter can follow 1t unerringly.
The tree found. 1t is felIed. Frequently
there Is more honey In 1t than one man
can carry away
The usual find in a favorable tree is
about 100 pounds of dark brown honey.
with rich wild flower flavor to IL.
Cunning says there is often some ex-
element attending a bee hunt. Some
times the bees cause trouble, but they can
DO no harm to man who knows how to
nandle them. But he has had one expe-
rience that he never wants repeated
one day last fall" he said, II war nigh
nve miles from hum, In the woods.
warnt huntin' bees. One o. my yearlin'
heifers he'd strayed an war lookin' fer
1t. But spies bee a hummin, around
Thinks !, I'll jess foller that un an locate
the tree, an some day I'll come an cut il
down.
We'll, ter make a long story short. I
follers 1t. Must a took me morn a mile
through the woods At last / sees it light.
Looked round me ter git somethin' high up
ter mark the place SOS / could find 1t agln,
and what does I see but a big black bar
a headin' for me.
baFrin' my pocket knife which war no
count In a fight with a bar. so / made
for a tree. Onhap'ly I TUX up the bee
tree
NOW, ef thars one thing morn mother
that bar likes tibet thing is wild honey.
When that bar got ter the tree he kind a
looked up ter me an blamed eff he didn't
git snifr' o. that honey. What does he
do but shin 1t up the tree.
II thinks he's after me- so I sorter sided
Off on limb. thinkin' maybe could drop
to the ground when he'd get clost. When
he gets to the limb lets go, intendin' ter
git down an skin out, but darned eff a
knot DIDN'T lSetch in the back o. my gall
luses an thar l hung expectin' the bar
ev'ry second
But he didn't come. To cut 1t short,
he left me hangin' thar, clumb on up the
tree an got at the honey. This sorter
stirred up the bees, but they didn't bother
him eny. He Jess ct away as onconsarned
ez ye please an the bees got arter me. l
couldn't protect myself an jess he'd ter
take It, not carin' 10 do enything tibet
would discommode the bar.
"Well, as the fellow says, that bar ct
his I'LL O. honey. When he got through
he KEN down. an I'm blamed ef l don't
believe ter this day that he laughed at
me an the bees. He trotted away an
or soon ez he war out o. sight reaches
up with my knife an cut my galluses
KEN down hard an when got up you
bet made tracks fer hum. / could hardly
see when / got thar. The bees he'd my
eyes nearly closed.
81 thought tibet war the toughest speri-
ence ever l he'd till KEN to Pittsburg.
But. bless you. It war ehild's play COM
pared TO the way you've got ter dodge
cars an things here. You cant stop on
the street minute but what they're ring
IN their everlastin' bells an hollerin' at
you to git out o. the road. I'm stayin'
purity close ter the court now. I'd like
ter git out ter see some o. the city, but It
amt safe. You can't tell which way them
cars is goin to come"