Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1892-11-15

this vicinity with the money SO
earned.
The bullheads we're hauled out
into sthe country and used largely |
for manure. There is no richer
land in Wisconsin than this has
been since 1860. All the farmers
fed tho bullheads to their hogs,
and for two years after that you
couldn't get a decent piece of pork
in this part of the state 1t was
all fishy. The hogs all took nat
urally TO worms and liver, after
that, and some of them evinced
rudimentary gills behind the ears.
Oh, 1 don't blame you for doubt
ing this. They all do.
There was a ford on the road at
this point Of the river, but the
wagons could not get into the
water. After the first eruption of
bullheads had subsidized planks
were laid across on the living pom
toon bridge of fish, and ON these
the teams crossed. Even after
the run had subsided very much,
children and dogs were known to
run across the open hole ON the
backs of the bullheads. Still later
in the run, after the fish had thin
ned out a great deal, a man well
known in this community-Julius
Cornell-sEpped from the ice and
fell into the hole. He could not
get into the water for the fish.
You smile at this. 1 do not blame
you. We are used to it. No one
ever believes this story.
After the bullheads thinned out
so you could get a spear through
, them as they lay in matted layer
it was discovered that there were
layers of bass and pickerel.
OF course everybody that winter
lived bh bullheads and they were
used in many ways. AS 1 have
said, farmers fed them to their
hogs. We had a lazy sort of ex-
pressman here named Brush, and
he owned q fall-down old horse
which dated back to the Mexican
war and was called Santa Anna,a and
Brush insisted that he was too
poor TO buy Santa Anna hay, and
so he fed him bullheads all winter
and that was everything the horse
had to eat for four months. Oh,
laugh, if you want to, we're used
, to it. But I'll take you out and
show you Santa Anna, a good,
healthy sort of horse today.
Brush has moved to Bayfield,, but
you ask any citizen of this town
if Santa Anna didn't live on bull
heads, and if he don't tell you
just what ] have I'll retract the
whole story. You needn't think
for a minute that I'm talking to
you out Of my head. These things
are all facts and you can get all
: the proof You want. You just go
out alone; don't take me along
. but Just stop any citizen of May
vile you meet and ask him about
J the Kekoskee bullheads. That's
d all I ask you to do. You just sifi
= this story and see if you don't fine
it true"
, We did sift the story and We did
b. find it true. That is the singular
. thing about the story, and that ii
3 why 1 call it the most remarkable
Q story 1 ever heard. The factl
u themselves are not beyond the
range of imagination, but to have
. whole community rise up anC
: testify to their truth-that proves
d that imagination has nothing t.
/ do with it, and that the facts ar,
l. pure and simple. Ordinarily on,
81 man tells 6sh story. Here 2O'
: tell 1t and tell it just the same
y The evidence is legal, convincing
y overwhelming. In the total
u makes up the grandest fish stor.
there ever was. / tell it here, bu
II it is nothing. No one man cal
D tell it. To hear it Alright yoI
p must go to Mayville. There tn
" whole town will tell you thi
- story.
" Col. John Borradaile, Of Al0u
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