The Supersonic Bee ~ The Swarm of "killer bees" at the Back 40 yesterday would have warmed the heart of the founder of The Neat Little Bookshop, Herb Martindale. In his book, The Caledonia Eye Opener, Herb writes about the supersonic bee. "If we can develop bees which fly faster, a squadron or two should be able to gather as much honey as a whole swarm of the old bees," reasoned Professor Ayphid. The day came when the flight of Professor Ayphid's bees broke the sound barrier and the tiny sonic booms had hardly stopped reverberating, when the college president, rushed over to convey his congratulations. But actually, things were not going quite as well as you might have thought. While a supersonic bee was an avid collector of honey, and could gather up a load of it in no time, it didn't have the faintest idea which way to fly with it in order to get home . It became a common sight around Clanbrassil to see an exhausted bee, dripping with honey, leaning against a veranda post or a barn door, confused and disoriented." ~ Herb Martindale, The Caledonia Eye Opener, wit, satire & parody in verse & prose...Alive Press Limited, Guelph, ON, ISBN 0 919568 16 5, Year unstated. (To the reader : Our apologies re: absence of paragraphs. Yet to-be-determined the annoying run-on sentences. Relying on other users and Help. Hopefully, once again soon we will feature paragraphs.) Update: Thank you to the user who supplied the tip.

Back 40 Restaurant ~ Cayuga-on-the-Grand

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Swarmed by "killer bees" on Cayuga Street ~ ~ A Pub Crawl The warm spring weather brought everyone out.

"I love everything that's old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines."

~ Oliver Goldsmith (1730 - 1774) She Stoops to Conquer. Anglo-Irish poet, writer and physician. Known for The Vicar of Wakefield.

"If all the trees in all the woods were men,
And each and every blade of grass a pen;
If every leaf of every shrub and tree
Turned to a sheet of foolscap; every sea
Were changed to ink, and all the earth's living tribes
Had nothing else to do but act as scribes, And for ten thousand ages, day and night,
The human race should write, and write, and write,
Till all the pens and paper were used up,
And the huge inkstand was an empty cup,
Still would the scribblers clustered round its brink
Call for more pens, more paper, and more ink."

~ OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Cacoethes Scribendi, American poet, essayist, physician 1841 - 1935.

Old Photos/ Damaged photos ~ Most of us have albums, shoe-boxes or even drawers of photographs -- sometimes kept in the dark for the purpose of conservation but often when only the original exists, we are reluctant to risk losing. Available at The Neat Little Bookshop is the careful restoration of treasured photos. Many options. Check us out. Scott Walker sun to earth photography

One Thousand Canoes website for registration or to volunteer. http://www.1000canoes.com/

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"One reason your dog can help you so much when you are downcast is that he doesn't demand to know why."

~ John M. Henry (1863 - 1939) Major League baseball player.

(...and Rufus)