The American guide., 1896-10-03
BROUGHT TO THE TAxiDERMIsT
Things Familiar and Curious In Grea'
Variety and from All Parts.

There are brought to the taNidermlst
to be mounted, birds and animals and
other things in a great variety. a boy
may find in the woods n turtle that
catches his fancy; he takes it to the tax
| idermist, gets it mounted, and puts 1t
| In his cabinet. Sometimes turtles are
mounted for paper weights. Horses
hoofs to be mounted are brought in by
horsemen. A woman whose pet horse
died had one of its hoofs mounted with
silver bands for use as paper weight
| Bears paws are often mounted as let
ter weights. The hunter may have shot
a bear at a season when its fur is poor
and its skin is not worth mounting as
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 10 his friends. More birds than ami
mails are brought TO be mounted, and
the birds most commonly brought ore
highholders, robins, blue iaysand hawks.
Among animals the most common is
the squirrel. boy who shoots fine
squirrel with a nice tail likes to get II
mounted, sitting up holding nut in
its paws Fox tails captured in the
chase are brought TO the tnNidcrmist,
and so ere fox heads.
Many pet dogs and cats and monk
eys and canarics are brought TO
hr mounted Often, when it dies,
the hunter has his favoritc hunting
dog mounted In an attitude pecul-
lar to It; II a pointer, for instance,
pointing, Other dogs, rattcrs or fight
ers that may have been remarkable,
nrc brought in to be mounted. Not
infrequently small alligators are
brought to the taxidcrmist, and some.
times larger ones. Awhile ago busi-
ness man of this city requested friend
who was going to Florida to send him
= little alligator; visitors often bring
or send north little alligators OF foot
or less in length. The friend bought
the biggest alligator he could find IN
Florida; weight, about n ton, and length,
II feet, and sent that north. In the
course of time it died, and then its own
er sent II to the taNidcrmist, had IL
mounted. and suspended it from the
ceiling Of his store.
There was brought TO the tnXidcr-
mist recently, for u social club in whose
title the word lobster appears, a lob
stcr weighing % pounds To the same
taxidermist there was once brought q
lobster weighing 90 pounds. Many
fishes are brought to the taNidermisG
trout, black bass, muskalongc, tarpon,
and many others, large and small, OF
both fresh and salt water There
was lately brought TO a New York tax
idcrmist n striped bass weighing i5
pounds. Usually the smaller fishes are
mounted entire; Of the big fishes gen
orally but half the fish is mounted, In
the hunting season the tnNidcrmist re-
ceiycs many specimens 10 be mounted,
including a wide variety of game and
game heads from many regions. Many
hunters have horns mounted in the
usual manner, or perhaps, for hat
rack or some article Of furniture. Horns
have been mounted as candelabra.
Hunters often have skins mounted ms
rugs.
sea captains bring to the iaxidcr-
mist to bc mounted, for themselves, or
perhaps 10 give away TO their friends,
strange and curious things from all
parts of the world, including sea birds
pnd tropical birds.--N. Y. Sun.