Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-15
Little Stories by Little Folk
(First PRICE,
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The Adventures OF Sweet Sip.

By Ruth Rodficld. Aged II Years. 500
BInncy street. Omaha. Neb. Blue side.
Sweet sin was a beautiful bee. IT Is
true she was not very old. To-day she was
to fly out into the bright sunshine and
gather honey like her sisters, for the
first time In her life.
The sun was shining brightly and
Sweet sip was quite dazzled as she went
out into the bright sunshine. The dew
drops were glistening like so many
diamonds The grasshoppers, whom the
bees considered very lazy, were chirping
with all their might and the birds we're
singing Far off in the distance sweet
Sip could hear the splash Of the water
OF the merry little brook as IL danced or
leapt over waterfall or fell away in
deep, quiet pools, where the trout played
hide and seek from morn I'll night.
All this Sweet sip thought very won
derful. which greatly amused her older
sister Honey Sip, who was thinking OF
the time when she first had come out
OF tho hive on just such morning as
this
But. come" said Honey Sip. I'VE must
not Ioiter here We must be gathering
honey to store up for the long, cold win
ter that Is coming"
| SO Sweet Sip unlocked her wings
bright gauzy things that they were
and, 10 and behold she flew through
the air so fast that It fairly made her
dizzy. She shut her eyes and II seemed
to her that she was going mile
second Instead OF a mile a minute.
Finally she opened her eyes. but-where
was she? Honey Sip was with her when
she started, but she was not in sight
now. SWEET sip unlocked her wings so
that she might go down to earth again
and though she did not know It she had
a narrow escape with her life, for she
NJ on a rock set $50 she thoughD right
in the middle OF a great looSingglass.
III Honey sip was only here" said
Sweet Sip, "she could show me the way
home"
But Honey sip was not there and could
not show her the way home. SO, being a
sensible little bee, though she was young
she started to help herself
She hooked her wings again and flew
towards a great bunch of pink and white
cherry and apple trees I'm bloom and
there she found such delicious nectar in
the blossoms that she for long time for
got that she was lost.
But after she had slipped all the honey
her small round body would hold she
looked up and saw the sun was getting
low In the heavens. She again remem-
bered that she was far from home and
did not know the way back.
Clap! 4 big black thing was clapped
over her. Then she felt II lifted from the
ground and she knew that II was one OF
: those dreaded boys that loved to catch
bees and put them in glass Jars. But
, there she saw hole In the cap and Out
: she went. humping into something and
: yes. It was really Honey Sip
/ "We1l, thank goodness have found
{ you az last. have been hunting for
you for more than an hour. Where have
= you been, you naughty bee?''
"oh. / got lost" said Sweet Sip. who
= was so tired that she did not care about
G anything but 10 get home, for her eyes
I were so heavy with sleep that she could
I hardly hold them open. They reached
Q their hive just as night shrouded every.
, thing In black
3. And so ended Sweet Sips first day Out
n OF the hive,