The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1858-06-25

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INV Aohh69'e FOX Skin,
"Mornin' Squire, f" said down caster.
with nod and wink. 10 Laymtn y
lowlo' as those gentlemen stood 10 tbsir
,. s.ore one morning, up aud dressed. for
chant. saw '''' l'''
"Pooty well. cousilerin' fbe state ~
ihlngs 10 gineral. say, yeou sell ekius
here, don't yeoul"
1--WE do, occasionally"
wal 50 eslkerlated; buy fox skins.
tew, | reokong"
..,"S% ,"S9m'time' Why, have you some for
"some' Yes, guess / have one: ifs
sum, tew, tell YOU"
Lets look at it" said one Of he
m1rohants
The owner Of the skin uggoi a, Tie
oapaeious pocket Of his old oyercost a
lew minutes, and out came a pretty rood
siSed skin Of venerable Revnard'
Lets examine it," said Layman.
There e Is, and a perfect bewty, is,
Seen finer ones. /" said Towle.
"Praps yeou hov. and p'raps yeoa
halnt--but l dew think it's rgle bewlv.
slck md SHINY as a new hat
when did you Get this skinY" asked
tho merchant.
"When did | get it9 why. whom
killed the darn orittter Of course"
"fes, we know but was & IN ;hv fan
or summer, or whon?"
"Oh, yesl well / reckon 'twant fsr
from the Fourth Of J0lv, any way; for
I'D jest cleaned up my old shootin piece.
TOR piade on the glorious anniversary
ana along comes tho old odiier, and
Iost give him q rip in tho gizxerl that
settled his hash mighty sudden, tell
youp
"Fox skins, - said the merchant are not.
very good when taken in hos weather;
The fur and hair are very thin, and not &c
for much IN hot weather"
oval, meow; ! reckon, since / come
to think IL over, 'twaut hot weather when.
| shot the oritter, and, I'm ba darned ef
u was; made thundorin' mistake besut
that; twas nigh onto Christmas, was, by
golly, for | and Seth Perkins wur goin'
tu lrolic / remember Il Ike book.
cold as sixty, snowiu' awful-was, By
ginger"
rWoll, says Iho merchant. "was the
fox very fatYi
Fat Oh. Mollyl wrn't Il hd--
Never did see such TAT feller In all nv
born days, Why yeou, Tie int oame clear
through the felltr's hide, run down h,s
legs, I'LL the very airlh was greasy whera
the darned varmint had crept along--
Did, by suapsl'
'Too fat, then, we guess, to be Good
said Towle "Fat skins, sir, are not so
good IS those taken from an animal not
more than ordinarily fat"
''Wall guess il warnt SO darned fat.
nuther; come to think abeout IL. twas an.
other fox our Seth shot last fall; this crit.
tor warn't SO darned fit. not oyer fat. in
TACT guess il was rather LEM kind o.
lean tre'msnjous lean; poor old varmint
was abeout 10 die Of sheer starvation,
never did see such darned, eternal,
starved. lean. lank, famished orilter on
the Lords airth before"
" Very poor, eh?" says Lyman.
Very poor?" | guess il was; so A.
mighty poor that the old critters bones
stuck eout, almost through his sbiu.
hadn' killed it just when did, 'twould
hey died atore IL got ter rods farther
along Fact, by golly"
"Ahl well" " said the merchant. "we
gee that skin is poor; the fur 10 thid and
loose and would not suit us"
"Wuht suit yew? Now, look ahero
yeou," says tic Yankee. folding uo his
versatile skim IL don't kind o. ike such
doaln' as that. no heow, and / II be darn
ed to darnation Of you ketch mo tradin
skins with you again. there amt no lum.
oor'in the State Of Main"
Aud the holder Of the skin vamossd.