Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-17

ANA - IS SUM lAlcS
of the Yellowstone Park" said the crit
zeal tourist. Anybody knows that boil
ing water will cook fish, and as long
as you know the Yellowstone is full OF
geysers and boiling springs 1 don't see
what there Is wonderful ABOUT catching
a trout and then turning around and
dangling 1T III a boiling spring until
1t Is cooked. 1t would begin to be won
derful II boiling waite didn't cook fish
everywhere.
But l wish when they are telling this
old story tney'd hnlsn it 1t
complete. The e time you hear any
body tell that story just you watch u
for the way it enus. 1t never ends.
The man tells how he caught the trout.
Well and good; anybody can catch hun
dreds OF trout in those overstocked wa
tiers. Then he tells how he swung
around on his heel, and. without taking
the fish from the hook, lowered it into
a pool OF boiling water and cooked it.
He just chortles about how ..e was over
come by the marvels Of nature and that
sort of thing. He doesn't say another
word about the fish. Now, II you will
only let the marvels of nature alone and
keep your eye fixed on the fish with
which the story began, 1t will look
mighty different.
There is a pool of boiling water pref
ty handy, but not by any means to be
reached by pivoting on the fisherman's
heel. Then just so as to have some
thing to talk about when he gets home
the fisherman souses his live trout into
the boiling water. If it's cruelty to boil
a live lobster there ought to be some
thing done to a man who will boil a
trout alive. And it spoils q fish; the
man has to throw it away after he has
shoved it through natures marvels for
the sal of his miserable little story.
Nobody can eat a trout that has been
boiled with its scales on and all the
machinery in place; it's get to be
thrown away. There's another thing,
too, about this story. The next time you
lear it, ask the man if he took the
trout out of the pool Of boiling water.
If he says he did, then the fish didn't
begin to be cooked, for anybody who
has ever seen a boiled fish of any sort
knows that when it's done it won't hold
together tight enough to be lifted unless
it's wrapped in q napkin before it's
cooked.
$50 there you have the plain facts
about cooking trout on the hook. I
know, because I thought it was such
q 6ACoS AAo VI AoNuAS NAA~ AA"N
to go and try it. Then I saw what
happened, and I haven't yet got through
feeling disguised with myself"
"A bear story from Vancouver, B. c.,
tells of a hunters mishaps ami narrow
escape from death when hunting in the
mountains near Takoosh harbor. w. J.
Lambert of Vancouver came suddenly
upon a big she grizzly and two cubs
while on a hunt recently. He fired n
wounded one of the cubs, which Was not
q particularly wise thing to do. The en-
ragged dam Immediately charged, and be-
fore he could reload his rifle the infuri-
ated animal was upon him. The hunted
hunter knew it was useless to run, SD he
started to back away as slowly as he
could, fixing" the bear with his eyes,
initiating her growl and swinging his
rifle to brighten her. He thinks he could
have got away had he not stumbled over
a log. His back and head lay on one
side and his feet on the other. The ant
mail was on him in an instant, n Lam
bert said 1T was an awful sensation to
feel her teeth sink into his leg to the
bone. He could barely reach the bears
nose with the rifle from the way he was
lying across the log, but he battered her
till she loosened her grip and at
lacked his foot. He first felt her tear of
the shoe, n then tried to scramble to
his feet, suffering great agony as the
flesh on his foot was being torn away.
He thought it was all up with him, when
In u he wounded set up a dismal
sQuealing n the mother ran owarls
her offspring. Lambert did not wait for
h bears return. but dragged himself
into the bushes. The bear did return,
but o o gave up looking for him to at
e to her wounded cub. and Lambert
crawled, hoped and dragged himself
down the mountain a distance Of twelve
miles, to where he left his boat. The
doctors at the hospital say, however,
that IL blood poisoning does not set In,
Lambert will be all right in 3 month.
A popularity attached to all sports or
games Of uncertainty is the feature des-
ignated buffers luck" It crops up
everywhere. A novice is out with the
hounds after deer and is left nopelessly
behind. A chance turn of the weary
buck brings him across III homewar1-
hound riders track a few NUT before
he Is bayed by the hounds, n for ever
the horseman brags that he wa in at
the death! In a lucky moment a poor
shot happens to be on the outside of a
cover clear of trees when a quail gets
up, and as he goes straight away gives
h sportman a chance. The bird, more
to the surprise of the gunner han OF
itself, falls to the ground, and the green
hand crows for a month that he got the
only bird Of the day! An old hand takes
a youngster out with him, lends him a
rod, fits him up a cast of his nies, and
instructs him verbally to the best of his
ability, giving him a chance at the most
promising streams. Curiously enough,
favored by the veterans valuable all in
h foregoing details and a lucky gust Of
wind, the novice's fly ia carried-and
only a buffers uck can explain why
bang into the mouth of a willy OLD trout,
who has defied the combined skill OF the
knowing Ones for some seasons past The