The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-10-21
ITS ALL
N THE
COOKING.

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I vote here. and sometimes Il, would he ever
on this side. In Michigan.
Now. Michigan ain'i Ike IL used 10 be.
boys. for the reason that where they'd used
10 20 through and cut out what timber they
wanted and fire the rest. they do things
different there now.
Nowadays. If a mans got a patch o
timber In Michigan he nurses II. And
there's some pretty big patches left up
there Yet, let me tel you. But. ss ] Vas
saying. or started ont to say. TO correct
myself. the man that owns timber i'm Michi-
gan nowadays takes mighty good care tie
doesn't kill the goose that lays the wooden
egg your grandrothe~ d-rEed on.
But what l was going 10 ask you was.
say, did any one OF YOU ever eat or know
how 10 cock a beavers tail2
We'll. ] suppose there isn't a one % YOU
that ever tried that And | don't blame
you. Because, when | went up against Il. IL
was a case of .have to or starve, prac-
ticaliy speaking.
"lessir, one winter--I used to always 20
with an old Indian-him and me were over
In Michigan hunting, aud the noble Old red
man took IL into his head he'd set some
beaver traps, which h. knew how TO d..
Not on the bank. Of course. like some DO.
but under the water IA what they called
the beavers run.
You see a beaver builds his house so
that you have TO go through water TO get
to II, and that keeps al, other animals out.
don't you see?
But II you set your trap on land and
Mr.. Beaver gets caught he'll gnaw his leg
OF. I've often seen that.
You see, We started that year rather
late in the fall and the Oil Indian insisted
IN setting his traps cut before we did any
hunting. So We went 10 work and built us
a little shack With d place 70 cook in II,
and laid In some fuel to cook the game We
We're going TO kill. Ard its mighty lucky We
did that, too. Because the very first day
We went out TO Try our luck we didn't
seem 10 have any at AL. In fact. We didn't
get a thing but a few beaver thai the Old
Indian sot in his trays. or ccurse. We had
some provisions, but not very much. anu
We hadn't counted i'll the blizzard that
Set in.
"WeIl. along about the third or fourth
day most OF cur provisions and all our
meat run out. and IL you ever been out
hunting you know what that means.
"The old Indian, | noticed. had skinned
the beavers and thrown the carcaS$es
away. OF course IL wasn't any use to Try
to look for them in hat deep SNOW. Eut
IL seems he'd kept TIE tails fer some r.a-
son. l don't know what.
We'll. the fourth day We didn't eat much.
nor the Hfth day neither. Bat on the fifth
day the weather began I. let ny. and the
old Indian gave me the aN and told me TO
! go out and cut down d young white maple
4 tree.
so went out. and he c@,ne along. too.
ard brought back the chips AMI part Of the
wood. l brought the rest.
And then he goes To- work and builds a
good FIRE in cur nth. old shack and puts
! them beaver tails on To boil. But first OF
all he puts In the white maple chips he'd
brought along. And h ptrboils. You might
say, them beaver Ia Is for about twenty
minutes. and when n took them cav You
ought TO see them white maple chips-hiaCk
as ink But when he skinned That Consumer
rubber skin off the beaver tails they were
white as snow.
We had a spider along, and he put them
In that and made wat you mighr call 4
pot roast Of them.
Good: Well. IN tell you how good they
HcrH. Next day the snow began To uaIt. and
for two or three weeks We had tn, finest
hunting ana moro game to eat than eyer
hiI IN my NE. ard I've hunted some. Bar
tails.