The Diary of Hardly
Date: Still a hopin.
Deer Mr. Diary
Since I aint been doin much, I have made the decide to tall U about sumthin that happened last summer. Hour barbershop cortet had just finished singing our last song at the once every summer icecream sociable win Carly Wagner came up 2 me an axed to speak 2 me in private. Well ol Carly always wanted the same thing. I told him I wood talk 2 him, but it looked like we were a gonna sing an oncore, an I wood B with him as soon as I was finished. After we sang Gennie With The Lite Brown Hare, I wint over 2 see Carly.
Hardly, he said I waz a wonderin if U cud help me find a beetree tomorrow?
I told him I wood an he said that he wood pick me up about 10 O Kolck in the mornin. We drove back thru Hickmans pasture 2 where the timber starts, an then we walked down 2 the crick. Carly said, Well, heres ware we start. I cud see sum uv them beez a gatherin water along the edge uv the crick, an we each new just watt 2 do. Old Carly wood sit down rite there along the edge uv the crick with a little handful uv flour. He wood dust a bee with a pinch uv flour an win the bee left he wood leave a type uv dust trail in the air, an my job waz to follow the white trail thru the woods. Cents I cud only keep up with a bee 4 a little waz, OCarly had to just keep a dustin them bees so I could keep a followin until I found their tree hive. Usually I wood only have to go back in the timber a couple hundert feat or so.
If the tree waz dead, we wood come back at nite with severl other fellers, plug the intrance 2 the beez tree hive, and then we wood cut a large section uv the tree out an haul it to won uv Carlys bee yards wich waz alwayz at least 3 miles away. If we didnt go three miles, Carly said that them beez wood go back to the original location a lookin 4 their home. Ol Carly an I wood set the section uv the tree up, an then over time he wood get them boxed in 2 won uv his box hives.
Ol Carly new watt we waz a doin coz we never did have much problem.
Hardly