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Something LW’q very frequently hear of snake and fish stories and sometimes a pretty good bee story Is told, says the Huntsville (Mo.) Herald-. Our friend, Bill Heflin, hardly ever relates anything unless ho knows what he Is talking about, and all who know him won’t question his veracity one moment or doubt the correctness of any story Bill may tell if he claims ho has a personal knowledge of anything connected with it.Not long ago Mr. Heflin and Squire O’Bryan were talking about bees and the manner of swarming and Mr. Heflin was reminded of the immense swarm he once saw in Missouri. It was during the time Bill was down south fighting for bis country and along about the last of that sanguinary conflict, when Bill saw that the southern boys had to surrender to superior numbers, that he saw the bigike a Swarmswarm of bees. Bill says ono day while marching up the Mississippi valley with his command ho saw bees swarming out of a hole in a big cliff. The hole, he says, was about three times the size of a hogshead and the bees filled the entire space and had the appearance of a black cloud coming out of the hole. He did not know how long the bees had been coming out of the hole, but the swarm was tw'o miles wide, ono and a half miles thick and twenty rnile3 long, and that they were two hours in passing a given point. Bill did not go Into particulars as to how ho got the dimensions of this great swarm of bees, nor when they settled, but lie says the bolo was left In the cliff, for he saw It after the bees had vacated it. This Is tho biggest bee story we ever heard and it seems too big to bo true, but Bill declares that his command was not on a retreat when he saw the swarm.
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Galena Tribune
Galena, Illinois, US
Tue, Aug 15, 1905
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