The Utah County Democrat. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1898-1909, 1908-09-22


method OF secret access to the daily
dram. SO recourse was finally had
by confirmed town topers to jugs hid
den In convenient and secluded spots.
II was upon such resort that the
boys had stumbled.
The boys were just heroes enough
to delight In variety OF victims for
the coming holocaust. so they poured
out the whisky In the jug, filled II
with oil. put It back uncorked in fits
hiding place In the fence corner, then
jumped over into the alley, and, by
violently shaking the fence post. in
the rotting base OF which the bees
had built their nest, reused the in
mates to sally forth on the other side
against their supposed enemy. the
jug
But when the boys were about to
return to watch the result OF their
maneuver they were deferred by the
appearance OF Col. Corcoran. whom
they at once OWNED to be on a visit
to the secret abiding place of his cher
ished comrade and only enemy-John
Barleycorn. In earlier and more
sober days the colonel had been the
pride of the community. first as a gal
| liant officer In the civil war, and later
as representative OF the district in
congress. and though he had fallen
| grievously from his high estate, he
still carried himself with soldierly
bearing and faced the world with a
cam, II suspiclously horid. coun.
| tenance.
From a secure hiding place they
watched the colonel look around to
see II the coast was clear, and then
reach through a broken board in the
fence for jug, They dared not say
word With a practiced swing,
learned years before in the harvest
field he lifted It upon his right shout
der. pulled down the mouth to his
lips, drew I'm his breath and took a
long and loving draught. The next in
slant, with sputtering yell, he
leaped into the air, dashed the jug to
pieces on the ground, stared one in
slant at a few damp bees struggling
in little pool of oil, and then, with
wild shout, fell prone on his face.
writing in III of delirium.
Luckily for the colonel. the terror
stricken boys in their flight spied old
DIR. Dinwiddie coming down the street
in a buggy. II took but few seconds for
the quick.witted eX-army surgeon to
grasp the urgency of the situation
from the boys disjolnted exclama.
tons. and lashing his horse. he
turned into the alley at a speed and
on curve which would have over.
turned a larger vehicle or a lighter
man, and leaped to the ground be
side the now exhausted and uncon
scious inebriate
The colonel was apoplectic in the
face and frothlng at the mouth. The
doctor whipped out his lancet bled
the patient and then pried open the
clenched Jaws, allowing halfdeat
bumbiebee to escaped The boys had
run up by this time. and explained
and the doctor. roaring with laugh
ter, exclaimed: Now he only needs
wick down his throat to burn like
campaign torchl"
Then he remembered the dignity
and circumspection due his position
as a physician. and added: Boys, Il
you ever say word about this, you'll
! not only get a licking from your dad
: dies, but I'll give you dose, the mex
time you're sick, thatll make you
think you've got a whole nest Of bum
blebees fighting in your little insldes
The colonel is so proud that he would
never hold up his head again, II thi:
} story got out"
But the story did not get out dur
ing the lifetime Of the colonel. who
could never again look with equanim
J lty upon bee or a jug. In time he
won back his old law practice ant
the esteem and respect of his towns
men, and died only last year, judge
, ! Of one of the highest courts, and ar
unconscious testimonial to the eff
cacy of the bumblebee cure
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