Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1849-05-31
The Yankees Fox Skin.

"Mornin' Squirrel said "down east, y
giving nod and wink to Lyman Towle,
Il Co., as these gents stood in their store in
Boston one morning cup and dressed" for
business.
"How are you, sir ?" said the mer-
chants.
"Pootywell con- siderin'the state Of things
in ginerawl: l say, you sell skins here,
don't you ?"
1--WE do, occasionally" was the re-
Spouse.
"Well, SO I calkelated; buy fox skin,
teon, l reckon ?"
Sometimes. Why, have you got some
for sale ?"
"some3 Yes, CUES. l hav one; its
some teou, tell yeou."
"Let's look at it," says one Of the mer-
chants. The owner OF the skin tugged at
the capacious pockets Of his old "yaller''
over-coat, few minutes, and out came a
pretty considerable sizable bang up Of u
venerable reynard.
"Ihere it is-a perfect bewty it is too.
Amt n?"
"seen many finer ones," says Towle.
"Praps yeou hev, and praps yeou haint ;
but | deou think it's rale bewty-slick
and shiny as bran new hat"
"When did you get this skin?" says
the merchant. -....
"When did get it7 Why, when l
killed the darn'd cri,ter Of course"
"Yes, we know, but was it in the fall
or summer, or when?"
90! yes well, l reckon, 'twar'nt fur
from 4th July, any way, fur I'd just
clean'd up my old shao,in' piece, fur
p'rade, on the glorious anivarsary, and
along comes the old critter, and | jest give
him rip in the gizzard that settled his
hash mig ty sudden l tell yeou."
Fox SKINS said the merchant, "are
not very good when taken in hot weather,
the fur and hair is thin, and not fit fol-
much in summer"
well, meow l reckon, since come to
think it over, twarn't hot weather when
shot the critter; no, I'd be darn'd ef il
was made thunderin' mistake 'beou,
that, fur twas nigh on to Christmas, twa,
by golly, fur and Seth Peurkins wur
goin' to irol,c, remember i, like a book
cold as sixty, snowin' awful, twas, by gin
ger!"
"Well," SAYS the merchant, twas the
fox very fat 2''
"Fa-t! o! Molly, warn't it fat?--
Never did see such a fat Teller in all my
born days. Why, yeou. the fat come
clean through the critters hide, run down
his legs, till the very airth was greasy
where the darn'd varmint crawld round.
Did, by peunkins"
"Too fat, then, we guess, to be good,
said Towle "Fat skins, sir, are not SC
good as those taken from an animal moi
more than ordinary fat"
"Well, guess ',warn't so darn'd fat,
nu,her; come to think abeout it, twas
anuther fox our Siah shot last fall this
old criiter want 30 darn'd fat, not overly
, fat--fact, l guess it was rey-ther poor
kind of lean, tree-menjus lean; poor old
varmint was abeout to die Of pure starva.
ton never did see such tlarn'd eternal
starved lean, lank, furnished live critter
on the lords year'h before. ;"
every poor, eh ?' says Lyman.
every poorp guess it was; so al
mighty poor that the old critters bones
stuck clean eo,,t, almost threu his skin ;
hadn't killed it jest when did, it would
died afore it got ten rods further along
Fact, by golIy."
"Ahl WE'LL" says the merchant, we
see the skin is poor. very poor the fur is
thin and loose, and would not suit us.
"Wunt suit yeou9 Meow, look ahere
yeon," says the Yankee, folding up his
versnfile skin, 81 don't kind O like SIGH
dealing as that, no heow, and I'd be darn'd
to darnation eff you catch Inc tradin' fox
skins with yeon agin, there amt no lumber
in the State o Mainep' And the holder
Of the skin vamosed.-.4uroyo Borsolis.
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