Is Stung By Insects, Loses His Clothes, and Is Forced to Leave Coach in Scanty Attire.
Berlin.-An honest Westphalian beekeeper boarded the train one day recently at Papenburg with a hive of prize bees to travel to Meppen, where he intended to exhibit his stock at an agricultural show. Underneath the seat he placed the hive, steadying it with his legs. Probably owing to the warmth thus generated, the bees after some time awoke, and a number of them crawled up his legs.
Passengers in the same compartment who had already eyed the farmer’s movements to rid himself of his assailants with suspicion became thoroughly alarmed when the four-winged insects began to fly about. One of the travelers pulled the alarm signal, with the result that the bee master was transferred with his hive to an empty compartment. Here the embarrassed passenger quickly divested himself of his nether garments and vigorously shook them out of the window to drive the unwelcome intruders out.
To his horror, however, the garment, which also contained his money, became entangled in a telegraph wire and was torn out of his hands. Ordered to leave the carriage at the next halting place, the blushing farmer was found huddled up in a corner, which he refused to leave until an official kindly lent him his great coat.
After giving up his watch and his new umbrella as security, he started, unmercifully chaffed by the spectators, on a search for the lost garment, and, thoroughly disgusted, took the next train home.
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