Show POOLED FOOLED That's what y old Dad Henderson was was was- he he was on the track of a tree bee but ha he wasn't hardship for Dad Dade Old Dad Henderson who ho fit in the war of th the Rebellion or the war of the Re we forget which had a experience one day dar last week which was full of hardships and which Dad will remember as long as he lives lives' I and Dad he aint no spring chicken now lOW either being as he is most mott 80 years I of old To make matters worse Dad has a wood leg being as Dad says sars he heI I had his leg shot off in the war while he heI was saving his country but them hereabouts hereabouts hereabouts here here- I who can remember a good ways back says sas 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 tood up on the feed board to fix or other and his foot andone andone and andone one leg kg went into the and was chewed off by the but Dad denies this Be that as it may however last Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day morning Dad he was poking along in his pasture at the edge of the woods back bade of his barn when he seed some honey bees working in some late clover dover blossoms which had come up in the shade and Dad tad says to By racky Ill I'll bet them bees is from some bee tree in the woods and andI I I can trace em and find out where they're holed up then Ill I'll chop down the tree and like as not git a tub- tub full of honey for home So Dad he hikes off home and gits a seegar box and puts some syrup into it and lugs it back and sets it down amongst the clover blossoms and awaits d developments Vei Well Nell bye and bye a bee went into the box and loaded itself upon syrup and started off in a westerly Dad he watched the bee as fur as he could see it but he couldn't see it very well ell being as his eyesight aint what it used to be Bye and bye be the bee bec come comeback comeback comeback back agin aRin and a whole passel of other bees with it and afore long the bees was comin column and goin relar Dad he tuk 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 Dad it tuk em a awful awful awful aw aw- ful lon long time Finally when the bees got ot to comin Dad he started off in the direck direck- chion they was flying and they was so many bees comin and going by this time that he could trace them well Dad the line of bees through a amile amile amile mile of woods and then em em on over o Teck's Hill and down side until he come to Snake Crick which was four foot deep but Dad right through the crick and went ent on half hall a amile amile amile mile until be he come to the same crick rik rika a agin n hen an u Snake Crick is titan than a do dos dogs hint ry and turns and andt Ulc t h twists ts around something awful DdS Dad Dd vs S he be he crossed that than 1 Mr lra I.- I. crick seventeen se times or more but he kep the line of tf bees over hill and valley and through h the woods and briars and over o bogs an anup and up over o ledges and through thickets and everything e else Dad couldn't peg pel along very erv swift wiit on his old wood leg but he got fOt l ex ex- pectin to find the bee tree every ery minnit and hurried as fast as he could until he was wu most To make matters worse Orie Dad while trying to climb over a astone astone astone stone fence got the end of his wood leg fast fatt betwixt two stones and broke about six inches of the lower end of his leg off He says he lie cussed and wore swore something something something some some- thing awful but what bat good did that do None one After he broke his leg he went ent sided lop but he cut him a staff and C and 14 b r alan tha tn best b Well Vell after Dad was most tired to lay him down and die die so so tu tuckered ered out that he he couldn't go another step he come out into a where there was a set of and dogna dogna- if he didn't trace them med bees into a hive hi in the back backard yard ard of them As Dad was standing I th there re wiping the sweat offen often his face on his coat sleeve slee and filled with deep disgust disgust disgust dis dis- dis- dis gust he swore so loud that the man who owned the bees come conic the house and when he seen Dad there lookin so with his clothes most tore offen his back by briars and brush and brambles he says to Dad be you ou a doin around here and what do you yon want Jest then the theman's theman's theman's mans man's bulldog come out and begin to growl at Dad who was ashamed to confess confess confess con con- fess what had him there so he told the man that he had lost his wa way and wanted to know where he was at The man told Dad that he was about a mile from which is 13 miles from Bingville Bing so you may know how fur Dad traveled after them pesky bees The mans man's name where Dad come out is Sime Pringle and after Sime had give Dad to eat Dad he started to peg back home to Bingville where he about dusk hot and disgusted disgusted disgusted dis dis- dis- dis gusted and so tired that he went right to bed without no supper Dad says that all of Sime Pringles bees which he finds honey his clover dover blossoms back of the barn he is is a going to stamp down into the ground and kill em deader than nits |