Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1918 — Misrepresenting a Bee. [ARTICLE]

Misrepresenting a Bee.

English officers and men still experience difficulties with the language a* the front. Recently an officer, seeing a swarm of bees settled near his billet, rushed to adjacent cottages to inform the residents. But explain verbally he could not. So, taking a paper and pencil, he drew a rough sketch of a hive, then waggled his fingers in what he thought the correct winglike way. It was a failure.'so he sketched a number of bees, and buzzed a beesome buzz. Whereupon the cottagers, together with one consent, bolted to the dugouts, believing that he meant hostile aircraft overhead. London Dally Chronicle.