Show I Snow College Literary Winners Winne Editors Editor's note These winning literary works were published in the he Snowdrift official l school p paper per for Snow I C College ollege and are reproduced in this paper with permission for the enjoyment of the readers of this paper STUNG STONG N Honorable le Mention Q Dy y Robert i III know what lets let's do said to the hart Bart as we were going pasture pastore after the milk mOk cows night Lets go around on onby one e by hv the cemetery and steal Lome some honey from old Charlies Charlie's bee hives lives 1 I From where we were we could see Charlies Charlie's place fc idea That sounds like a good I to me e I replied And its it's almost almost al- al most t dark so v we e shouldn't much trouble ha h have too t hWe We hadn't been into Charges Charge's Charlies Charlie's Char Char- ge's lies lie's bee hives yet that year leo headed excitedly for his so we horses toWe to spurring our place leet maximum speed We Ve a soon get t reached d Charlies Charlie's field gate 1 and I 1 dismounted and opened It t. t Its always always al- al T Hey I exclaimed ways been night when we robed robI robbed rob rob- I b bI bed ed the hives before Do you your r I think ink that we can do it without without without with- with out getting stung We can sure try replied Bart Ill try anything once By ih he way way have you got some matches r Yea Ive I've got two or three i why I I hear that if you smoke them themI out they wont won't hurt you I We can set some of this rabbit brush on fire for a smoke smokescreen screen f This sounded like a good Idea to me so I produced my total of two matches One of 1 the matches matche was broken but we proceeded to make us some brush torches Well VeIl the Idea didn't seem to work too u n. n t tf wen well and ana we wt were soon ou o VI i matches with no torches to show for it The brush was slightly wet and we just lust couldn't seem to make it burnIm burnIm burnIm burn Im going to get some of that honey comb if its it's the thelast thelast thelast last thing I do I said It was then that Bart came up with th another of his bright Ideas and he replied Lets j just fast st ride through the hives fast on our horses and get the honey before the bees h have ve time to sting us I l didn't know now Snow the plan feld would work but it sounded worth a try We Ve mounted our Ih fas and started through ie e hives The bees didn't em to be too active and we grew more lent ent nt With a whoop I put my horse orse arse to a run and started for forne L ii ne of the gray colored hives Is s 5 I passed the hive live I cached ed down and neatly in AIM knocked the lid off onto the ground A swarm of bees came up from the hive but we were far ahead of them on our galloping horses Say I said This is go going going going go- go ing to be as easy as taking candy from a baby Yes Bart replied only sweeter We Ve rode through the hives again to look the situation n nover over and as we passed the lidless hive we could see the bees in a mass on top They were sitting one on top of the theother theother theother other making a layer of bees about two or three inches thick on top of the hive We Ve then rode out of the bee hives to plan our next attack This isn't going to be as easy as we thought Bart said Im not about to stick my hand into that pile of sting sting- ers Were Vere not licked yet I replied I know just what we can do Lets Let's get some brush swats and ride through and kill the bees then thene we e can go goin goin goin in and get the honey and not be bothered with them This sounded good to Bart and we started the m mass mas a s s slaughter The first few trips through went fine and I suppose suppose suppose sup sup- pose that we killed some four or five thousand bees The third trip however did not go goso goso goso so good My 1 horse fell just lust as asI asI asI I was reaching out to swat the bees I landed squarely against the topped open-topped hive knocking it over with the im impact im- im pact As the hive toppled on its side it emitted a elo cloud d of b bees s. s Well VeIl th that t cloud of infuriated tar ted V r bees oe headed lion lorl right T for r fr nyo me mo mn u bU AV u. u 1 sharpening their stingers as they came I was on my feet and leaving a blue streak be behind behind behind be- be hind me in nothing flat but the bees weren't going to be cheated out of their revenge As I would slap at one bee with his stinger in my rump another one would bury his in my car ear As I started to outdistance outdistance outdistance out out- distance some of the bees I had time to notice that I would have to solve this this problem entirely by myself bec because use my inconsiderate buddy was rolling rolling rolling roll roll- ing on the ground with hy hy- hy steria I suppose that I did present a rather comical sight slapping myself and trying to rake the bees from underneath underneath underneath under under- neath my shirt but I can tell you I was in no laughing mood I felt more like a pincushion pincushion pincushion pin pin- cushion than anything else and I have since doubted that even a pin cushion has as many holes in as I I had I finally cleared myself of the rest of the bees and went over to where Bart was still laughing so hard that he had tears in his eyes All AIl r rig right i g h t laughing-boy laughing wheres where's my damned horse I yelled in my fury Ive never seen anything so funny in my life Bart wailed Y You ou were hilarious think hilarious when I get hold of you I yelled and made a lunge for him He pleaded and made an honest effort to stop laughing then he Informed me that my horse had left for home during the excitement This was just about all I could take and I sunk to the ground in a defeated state only to leap back up with the bee stings on my rump hurting all the worse With some encouragement encouragement- from Bart I finally eased myself myself myself my my- self up behind him on his horse and we started out again agate to get the cows leaving the well armed bees to them them- selves Approximately a half hour later we were driving the cows toward home when I saw my fathers father's car coming down the road Oh Ohl What was I go goIng go- go ing lug to do now How could I explain my red swollen face The true story would sound ridiculous A As the car pulled up beside our horse my father fath fath- er poked his head out of the window and yelled We Vet saw saw your horse come home with the saddle on and thought something had happened to you I would have to think fast now What c could uld I say She got away from me as I was closing the gate I lied Well VeIl there was that faked off q now what would be the next question question ques ques- es- es tion Then it came just as I had expected What in the world is the matter with your face mother moth moth- er asked I I 11 I dont don't know I guess its it's just sunburn I stammered Well Vell you had better find a ahat ahat ahat hat to protect you from the sun said dad and they drove off I heaved a sigh of relief as they left I had had to lie about it but at least I was safe for fora a little while I knew that I wasn't safe for long though because I could feel the ef effects effects effects ef- ef of the bee stings coming on I could feel the skin on my face tightening up with swelling and my eyes were puffed and swollen nearly shut A feeling swept over me and my temples temples temples tem tem- ples felt cold and damp Be Before Before Before Be- Be fore we reached r home a cold sweat had broken out all over my body When we reached home I stole dazedly into my room and plunked down onto my bed just in time to avoid fainting The room was swirling swirling swirl swirl- ing crazily around me and before before be be- be fore long I had dropped fast asleep Hey wake up my brother shouted Arent you going to do your chores tonight I opened my eyes far enough to see my brother Jerry shaking shaking shak shak- ing me then I moaned that I Iwas Iwas Iwas was too sick to do chores chore I slowly told him the bee story then I bribed him to do my share of the chores and to not tell my parents the reason why I was sick After Jerry had left I amused myself for a moment counting the bee stings that I had acquired and I came up with a grand total of 17 stings I had just lust about dropped off to sleep again agan when my mother entered the room Jerry told me the story she said I had better doctor you up dont don't you think At that moment I was too ill to care who knew about the story or whether I was go going going going go- go ing to be doctored or not I remember only of making the vow never to try robbing beehives beehives bee beehives hives again |