Sun River sun. [volume] (Sun River, Mont.) 1884-1885, 1884-11-27
Mr.. WHITE OF DELAWARE.
A White.Tailed Black Squirrel and q
Cedar Tub Coospire for His
Diversion.

INVERSION.
Stroudsburg (Pa.) Letter to New
York Sun: The Hon. Lamont s.
White, Of Wilmington, Del, came to
Monroe county few days ago to visit
a relative who lives on the banks of
Broadhead's creek, five miles from
this village. He returned to Della
ware yesterday. The Hon. Mr. White
loves the hunt. He was in Monroe
county week, and tried his hand at
all kinds of game from pheasants to
seven-up. His strong point was squir-
rels. When he drew bead on a squir-
rel the Hon. White was bound to get
the squirrel if he had to climb the
tree and club it to death. He went
out after squirrels Monday. While
roaming through the dim-lit aisles of
the forest he put up a beautiful black
one. It was big one, too; big as a
cat. And it was q curious one. It
had such pretty white tail. The
Hon. Mr.. White covered the squirrel
with Buster. Buster is his $125 stub
and-twist shotgun. He shot few
times at the squirrel, which pansed at
the foot Of an old stump. The Hon.
MIR. White managed to creep up quite
close to it. Presently shot struck
the squirrel. Then tho Hon. Mr..
White wanted to go home. He longed
for the fragrant presence Of bank of
violets. The circumambient air was
no longer freighted with the odor Of
autumnal woods. In the ardor Of the
chase the Hon. Mr.. White had over
looked the physiological fact that
black squirrels never have white tails,
and that such distinguishing trade
mark is peculiarly tho possession OF
the aromatic skunk. So he turned
his footsteps homeward, mingling the
pungency Of his presence with the
mellow October breeze at every step
The Hon. Mr.. Whites relative lives
in snug farm house, built SO close
to the waters of Broadhead's creek
that they flow Immediately beneath
the windows Of the chamber that had
been SGT apart for the visiting sports
mans use. Night had fallen when he
reached home. He stopped several
rods from the house and yelled for his
host. The host cam. hurriedly to-
ward him, but stopped rod or SC
away, seized his nose between his fin.
gers and said:
"Great Solomon! N'hcre'd you run
against it?"
The Hon. Mr.. White related the lit
tie oversight in connection with the
white-tailed black squirrel.
"Fetch me out some Clothes" said
he. "I'll bury these ten foot under
the sod"
His relative brought out another
suit. He tied it in q bundle and
passed it over to the Hon. Mr.. White
on the end of a fifteen-foot bamboo
sucker pole. The visiting sportsman
changed his clothes. Then he dug d
pit in tho garden, sank the noticeable
garments into it, and covered them
up. Then he went up to his room by
the back way and called for tub of
hot water. His relative brought up
the water in a brand-new cedar tub.
The Hon. MI. White bathed profusely
and robed himself anew. Then he
raised the chamber window with the
intention of mingling the refuse water
Of the bath with the ceaseless murmur
of the stream beneath. For an in
stant the falling water glimmered in
the moonlight. Then the tub slipped
from the Hon. Mr.. Whites hands, and
the next moment was riding the waves
of the rushing creek. II was n lovely
night. The moon looked down on the
misty earth and the shimmcring river,
and on new twenty-shilling tub
gliding toward the sea. The Hon.
MIR. White felt that the tub must be
saved at all hazards, and he rushed
from the house and pursued the fugi-
tive vessel. 1t tossed along on the
waves, only a few feet from,the shore.
A short distance below low branch
of cottonwood tree projected over
the water not more than two feet
above it. The anxious pursuer of the
tub ran to the tree and crept out upon
the limb before the tub reached it.
When it came sallntering along be-
meath the limb, the Hon. Mr.. White
made grab for it. Tt was good
grab. But it was only grab. He
missed the tub and lost his balance.
The water was six feet deep just there,
and the visiting sportsman touched
bottom. He crawled out of the creek
twenty yards farther down. The air
was frosty and the water very cold,
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