The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1896-10-24
saoueHT 70 LEE TAxIpERMIsr:
Things Familiar and Curious in Grea
vnrietY and from Ar Parts.

Things Familiar and Curious in Great
Variety and from AIR Parts.
There are brought to the taxidermist.
to be mounted, birds and animals and
other things in a great variety. A boy
may find in the woods a turtle that
catches his fancy; he takes it to the tax
ddermist, gets it mounted, and puts it
IN his cabinet. Sometimes turtles are
amounted for paper weights. Horses
hoofs to be mounted are brought ia by
horsemen. A woman whose pet horse
died had one Of its hoofs mounted with
silver bands for use as q p weight.
Bears paws are often mounted as LETT
ter weights. The hunter may have shot
a bear at a season when it's fur is poor
and its skin is not worth mounting as
a rug or as an animal, but the paws
are all right, and he has them mounted
and keeps one for himself and gives the
rest to his friends. More birds than ami
mails are brought to be mounted, and
the birds most commonly brought are
highholders robins, blue jaysandhawks.
Among animals the most common is
the squirrel. A boy who shoots a line
squirrel with a nice tail likes to get it
amounted, sitting up holding a nut in
its paws. Fox tails captured in the
chase are brought to the taxidermIst
and so are fox heads.
Many pet dogs and cats and monk
eys and canaries are brought to
he mounted. Often, when it dies,
the hunter has Ills favorite hunting
dog mounted in an attitude pecul-
Jar to it; if a pointer, for instance,
pointing. Other dogs, ratters, or fight
ers that may have been remarkable
are brought in to be mounted. Not
infrequently small alligators are
Brought to the taxidermist, and some
times larger ones. Awhile ago a bust
ness man of this city requested a friend
who was going to Florida to send him
a little alligator; visitors often bring
or send north little ~alligators of a foot
or less in length, The friend bought
the biggest alligator he could find in
Florida; weight, abouta ton, and length
II feet, and sent that north. In the
course of time t.died, and then its own.
er sem it to the taxidermist, had il
mounted, and suspended it from the
ceiling of his store.
There was brought to the taxider.
mist recently, for a social club in whose
title the word lobster appears, a lob
ster weighing % pounds, To the same
taxidermist there was once brought &
lobster weighing SO pounds. Many
fishes are brought to the taxidermist;
trout, black bass, muskalonge, tarpon
and many others, large and small, o
both fresh and salt water. Their,
was lately brought to a New York tax
idermist a striped bass weighing A!
pounds. Usually the smaller fshesnr
r,orn4ads~tirc; OF big fishes gen
orally but half. the fish is mounted. Il
the hunting season the taxidermist re
ceiges many specimens to be mounted
including a wide variety OF. game an
game heads from many regions. Man.
hunters have horns mounted in tn
usual manner, or perhaps, for a ha
rack or some article of furniture. Horn
have been mounted as candelabri
Hunters often have skins mounted q
rugs.
Sea captains bring to the taxide1
mist to be mounted, for themselves, c
perhaps to give away to their friend
strange and curious things from q
parts of the world, including sea birt
and tropical birds.-N. Y. Sun.