Mexico Missouri message., 1916-06-15
WOODCRAFT STORIES
FOR LITTLE CHILDREN
Eleventh Story.
By L. Roy Ferris.

By L. Roy Ferris.
Fatty Bear was asleep. Asleep in his cozy log, that
had been in his home since Fatty large enough
to eat wild pums when his mother would hold the limb
down to the ground Several bees had stopped in their
rounds of gathering honey have little talk with friend
Fatty This thing of bees working all the time is
Wake up and talk to Don't let the Queen hear you,
for goodness akes for she just mad be- Come
and make honey in hive in the wateroak tree
Fatty well knew the place, for many is the time he
had climbed the and reached the little brown paw
and made aswpe at the honeycomb He took only little
chunk of the golden sweet and of the old Queen
would get awfuly angry and send of her
Ito drive him away and and then he would receive
sting he slid down the tree But really believe they
were only making bluff, for everybody loved Fatty Bear
Don't you ever put up any food for winter? asked
1.-THE bees of Fatty.
Fatty grinned and said mo, no, little folks. You see
II don't anything the wntertme for in the fall
Ia the wild fruit can find and that makes me real fat
and dowsy and go sleep and sleep while the ground is
covered with carpet of Bunny Rabbit makes little
Ipaths and has fine time playing in the and
times he jumps upon the log where am sleeping
but hear The sleet falling against the log only
makes me sleep more sOundy."
"Well, come and follow to the and will
Ipromise not to tell the Queen And taking wing thew
took beene the tree But of course Fatty hasn't any
wings and if he had they wouldn't carry him. because he
such little pig, he SO fat 1t took lots of coaxing
Fatty climb the because he could reach
enough around the trunk like he used and if you boys
much ice you will be just like Fatty Bear
But of the bees gave him friendly sting which put
new life into Fatty and up the he Sitting
astrde the limb he peeped into the hole and did
to make any quick motions for you know the bees will
harm you you quiet and the quick motion is only
be used when you making your getaway.
There the old Queen, mad hornet. Il tell
you Fatty heard her say get busy and make work
er cells and also drOne cells Make the drone cells
larger than the others hate to have you do it but
you might well make four queen cells for you work.
Iers will never be satisfied without queens"
After attending to these orders the workers
pile of eggs Severa thousand of them more) and pro-
ceeded put egg in each cell Fatty looked if
there might be any difference in the eggs they
Jail alike. Fatty could hardly believe his eyes for they
filled the drone cells with food that looked like ginger
cake and the worker cells with food that like lemon
pie and the queen cells with something that resembed
cusard and there stood several workers with seal
tup the cells like mother seals the jam The young bees
will have to eat their way out How would you like be
fastened up barrel of ice and have eat your
way out? Wouldn't it be fun?
And the old Queen gave further orders:
Some of you go out to the front door and stand
!guard, and death to the one who does not obey
That about all Fatty could stand, for when the
guards took their place at the front door Fatty Brown Bear
had reached his log.
few days later Fatty lay wondering how the sup
py of honey getting along bees stopped take
drink small puddle by. Fatty heard of them
Isy MY, my, but things going wrong the hive The
Queen has Sung three of the queens death and
would have killed the other but some of the guards
fought her away. And that isn't all of it, either moth
miller slipped past the guards and got into the hive OF
they killed her but until she had woven web
and can't get back to winters honey The
Queen mad she had most all the drones killed and
now the old Queen is going to start a new hive
Poor Fatty Bear did not dream that these very bees
were looking at his log with view of taking possession
Here they came thousands of little fellows and Fatty
discovered too late that he could whip whole
swarm of bees
That night DR.. Owl picked the stngers out of
Fatty'S head he remarked You ought to have more
sense than to try to fight many"