The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-15
POOLED!
That's what old Dad Henderson was he thort he was on the track of a bss-trss, but he wasn't - tuTdbls hardship for Dad.

Old Dad Henderson, who fit in the war of the Rebellion or the war of the Revolooshion we forget which had a turribie experience one day last week which was full of hardships and which Dad will remember as long as he lives and Dad he aint no spring chicken now either being as he is most 80 years of old: To make matters, worse Dad has wood leg being as Dad says he had his leg shot of in the war while he was saving his country, but them here abouts who can remember a good ways back says that when Dad come home from the war he had two of as good legs as anybody would want and that the way Dad lost his leg was once when he was feeding a thrashing machine he stood up on the feed board to fix somethin or other and his foot shpt and one leg went into the macheen and was chewed off by the macheenery, but Dad denies this
 Be that as it may However, last Fri day morning Dad he was poking along in his pasture at the edge of the woods back of his barn when he seed some honey bees working in some late. clover blossoms which had come up in the shade and Dad says to hisself, By cracky I'll bet them bees is from some bee tree somewheres in the woods and calkilate l can trace em and find out where they're holed Up, then I'll chop down the tree and like as not git tub full of honey for home consumption"
 So Dad he hikes of home and gifts a seegar box and puts some syrup into it and Jugs it back and sets it down amongst the clover blossoms and awaits developments.
 We'll, bye and bye bee went into the box and loaded itself upon syrup and started off in a westerly direkshion. Dad he watched the bee as fur as he could see it, but he couldn't see it very well being as his eyesight aint what it used to be. Bye and bye the bee come back agin and brung a whole passel of other bees with it and afore long the bees was comin and goin reglar. Dad he tux out his watch and tried to tell how long it tuk the bees to go and come from their bee tree, but his watch was stopped and he couldn't time em. Howsumever Dad thort 1t tux em a aw- full long time.
 Finally when the bees got to comin reglar Dad he started off in the direck- shion they was flying and they was so many bees tomin and going by this time that he could trace them purity we'll. Dad follered the line of bees through a mile of woods and then follered em on over Teck's Hill and down tother side until he come to Snake Crick which was four foot deep but Dad wadeI right through the crick and went on half mile until he come 10 the same crick agin ben as Snake Crick is crookeder t.ian a dogs hint l.g and ,urns and twi;ts around something awful Dad ,i;s he r>eEons he crossed that derpa- shion crick seventeen times or mebby more but he kep follerin the line of bees over hill and valley and through the woods and briars and over bogs and up over lodges and through thickets and everything else.
 Dad couldn't peg along very swift on his old wood leg but he got exsi.ed ex- pectin to find the bee tree every minnit and hurried as fast as he could until he was most exosted. To make matters worse Dad while trying to climb over a stone fence got the end of his wood leg fast betwixt two stones and broke about six inches of the lower end of his leg of. He says he cussed and swore some thing awful but what good did that do? None. After he broke his leg he went iop-sided but he cut him a staff and stumbled and blundered along the best he could.