Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-12-03 | Page 28 | Bumblebees and a City Chap

l Bumblebees and a City Chap f v F CORMER ORl Sheriff Sherif Billy Davis of or A Bartholomew count county told the tho following to Illustrate the driving force of qt the little black bumblebee the bane of ot the tile existence of or the small country bo boy and the summer boarder boarder- We had on our farm one summer a young oun man from the tho city cily who had hada a horror of ot stung b by a ab bce bee He had been told that 1 If lr he we were e attacked he should see to it that his head and face were protected as the bees would sting sUng his face all out of shape and nd if lodged in his hair would sit and sting until the they were wele tired I He was vas with us In the clover er field one da day where the be bees s were ere un unusually unusually un- un un-I un usually 7 thick We Ve were doddering the tho ha hay or piling it In small piles against an approaching rain and were pretty prett close to the mower As the city chap was st stalking I along along- between between be be- tween piles the mower tore up the thene ne nest t of ot some of those little black bumblebees and the they made for the youngster from town Some one shouted and the threatened victim made for a newly piled plied dodder of ha hay In he went head foremost until his head and shoulders were covered ered But the bees didn't care about the head and shoulders particularly There was a wriggling wriggling- mass it looked alive and ana they went to it and what the they did to the exposed part of that dt chap was a plenty A muffled yell rell from the interior of ot the thc dodder followed und and nd hay went scattering in all aU directions The city chap arose to I his feet teet madder than a wet hen I I I 1 may be from the city and green he ho shouted but I think it ISa Is Iso o a mighty mean trick to scare a fellow like that and then when he hc is trying to make himself safe stick him hint with witha a pitchfork I can n lick lIek the man who did it Indianapolis News