Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1874 — The Hunny Bee. [ARTICLE]

The Hunny Bee.

The hunny bee iz about 10 times the s(ze ov the lious fly—i never meazured them—tlfey won’t stand still long enuff, but i think I hav got their dimenshuns about right. If i hav made a blunder in this matter i am reddy to rfepent and be forgiven for it. They are az bizzy az a type-setter on the New York Weekly, in thoze countrys whare hunny iz skarse, but (share sweet meats are a drug they won’t work at all. I dont kno az we kan blame them for this, for if beefsteak lay hot and well buttered bi the roadside all the time, and bivalves were running around on the half shell, peppered and salted, crying “ Who’ll eat me?” i would like to see the man yu could hire to thrash out fye that waz wet in the bundle for 10 shillings a day. Hunny bees are bilt w ith a sting, which iz quicker than a ghost when a good bizzness chance offers; but I never knu onrr to use it just ibi* the-diviltry -ov the thing. Theze little workers travel about five miles a day during the sweet seazon, and bring their hunny home stuck onto their legs. If thare iz a lazy one in the hive he gits lynched at once. Lynch law iz the hunny bee’s justiss. Man stole this code from the hunny bees, jist az he haz stole pretty mutch everything else he haz got. Killing oph the lazy may look a little tuff, but after all thare iz something like mercy in it, for it iz the only way known az yet to put an end to their torments. Hunny bees hav a queen, but never a king; this iz a grate compliment to the sex, and iz an argument for “ Wimmin's Rights," which the beleavers in this doktering are welkum to use without giving me kredit for it. The hunny bees are the only nation i kno ov who hav allways had a queen for their ruler, and w’ho hav been more prosperous and hav existed longer than enny people we kno ov< I luv the hunny bees bekause they are allwuss bizzy, and hav a stinger alhvuss hot and reddy for the lazy, and for thoze who poke their noze into their bizzness.— Josh. Billings, in N. Y. Weekly.