Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1883-10-06
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1883.
Game on Ararat.

Il don't see how it is that the mini
soer is down on you So" said the grocery
man. "Iie was i'm here this morning 10
get trusted for Il number three mackerel.
and he said he would walk around a
block any time rather than meet you,
because you asked him so many ques-
lions that he couldn't answer. What
have you been asking him lately ?"
ooh, / only wanted to get a little light
on yachting. He is paid a salary to en-
tighten his congregation and he al rays
wants lis To ask questions, but lately he
has turned me away with a soft answer
] asked him il he didn't think Mount
.Ararat would have been a boss place TO
hunt just after Captain Noah turned all
the game loose, and the water was his,,
so You could sneak right up on to ele.
plants, and tigers. and chipmnnks. and
fox-squirrels, and the minister, who had
been telling pa what a boss time he had
last winter hunting deer M in Michigan.
got offended and told pa he better dis
miss ms with a boot. | don't know as
IT would be any more harm to hunt deer
ON Mount Ararat along about 2,349 years
Is. {. than IL would now, though they
might have had a game law that would
protect the game on account Of there
being only Il limited supply. But / SUI!
pose the game wonlG have been very
poor, aus 10 had been shut up in the
ark a long time without food. and Che
captain of the ark full oi bug juice"
Hold on now, boy, don't be bearing
false witness against thy %neighbor," said
the grocery man, Mortified ut the re.
marks oi the boy. There il no record
that Noah had anything TO drink on the
ark. Give Noah his due, whatever YOU
do"
We'll, maybe You arc right; but as /
understand h he had "A terrible appetite
for intoxicating fluid on shore, ard one
would suppose if he didn't have a bar
on the yacht he would have strapped a
couple of jugs o the mules when they
went aboard. and he must have known
it was going TO DC n long and tedious
cruise and very lonesome, and if he had
anything stimulating ON board he took
a nip occasionally. And you couldn't
blame him. Everybody's appetite is
better when sailing, and Noah had to
run the boat night and day, and it
wouldn't be strange if he spliced the
main brace. BY lingo, I should think
That Noah would have got sick of man.
agerie and been mighty glad when he
struck the top ofthe mountain and turn
ed them loose, and when the water went
down, and the animals went sliding
down hill, falling over each other to find
q good place to nibble grass, it must
have been a picnic to Noah. But wha,
do you suppose the lions found to eat 2
They live on meat, and as there were
only two animals Of kind they had to
wait until some more small animals
could be raised before they could eat,
'cause ifthey eat any animal that settled
Il, and there wouldn't never be any oil
those animals on earth. Say don't you
think those lions had pretty good con
troll over their appetites not to make
mince meat Of the other animals? How
do yon account for the fact that all those
animals lived without anything to eat ?"
"Oh, ] don't know. You make me
tired. don't wonder the minister can't
Set along with you. Maybe Noah took
Glong fresh meat enough to last the lions
a year and bAled hay for the elephants
and CRATES and cattle. Fix it any way
YOU want to. Darned if l know any.
thing about it," said the grocery man.