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MICHIGAN FOOD & BEES BY A. D. P. VAN BUREN
As I returned to the house the greedy, hungry brood immediately ran to him again, and chased him about the door-yard, picking at his legs and feet.
Once more by the fireside, I watched the baking of the cake. The bottom done, I set up the spider for the top to bake. This done, I made a square meal on that short-cake. Appetite always keen, but now heightened as stolen apples are sweetest, I relished the cake exceedingly. There was none of it left to turn evidence against me. This adventure remained a secret for a long time. It finally got out. Uri, no doubt, found it too good to keep, and related it to some friend. I then gave to our family, my entire transactions that Sunday morning—mixing up feed for the chickens.
"RAISINGS" AND "BEES" AMONG- THE EARLY SETTLERS.
BY A. D. P. VAN BUREN.
"The Hoosiers and the Suckers, and Wolverine farmers all know the right way to carry up the corners. "
Raisings, logging-bees, husking-bees, quilting-bees, and the many other occasions in which the word bee was used to indicate the gathering of the settlers to render gratuitous aids to some neighbor in need, originated in, and was confined to new settlements. It was merely the voluntary union of the individual aid and strength of an entire community, to assist a settler, in doing what he was unable to accomplish alone.
Hence by bees the pioneers raised their houses and bams, did their logging, husked their corn, quilted their bed coverings, and enjoyed themselves in frolic and song with the girls in the evening.
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