The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-03
THE SUPERNATURAL MINK
An Enemy of the Red-eyed Bass Who Laughed at
Dynamite.


seconds each Tn fus' one lighted went
on wen / were putin III fire L a. las
one Then I buzzed up IN river an walt
ed hve hundred yard away TT m lcs'
kerloom-baloom. amt claimin 4 be no
shore nough skater now. but them times
could move q leetle Polin boats rr
feiers wat cain feesh takes IN s1eed out
N mans laiss
"Ef you could a lissened T. Them sticks
a-goin' on you'd a-thought they was hell
a-poppin' an not a bucket O. wattuh IN
side o. forty rod. They tell me Il were
heerd an ov'r this here part O. tn United
States. One time they was eighty ar nleb-
be ninety duck hunters up frm Chicarger
with lOgauge guns al shootln' at one
mud hen on Long lake an It weren't
nothin 4 compare Mex mornin ur ]
should say wen m sun come up tn
Flambeau looked like some CANT done
been at Il with a pickaxe wat would
reach rom here T. III moon. Tn ice were
ehaNed an splintered an sawed an
heaved tremenjus. ! says m m'sef. says 1.
Here's Were you kin 'nough red-eyed
bass 4 make you mos as rich as M man
wat keeps Henderson's store ef You could
ony git EN- 10 Chicarger; but you shore
got that mink says. An I goes to sleep
peaceful
Bout noontime ] goes to mi OF ledge
o. rock an lays down an sticks M chin
over thinldn' that lookin' through a ice
crack I might fin as much as a piece O.
pelt. ur one yeller ring ier There he
were, swimmin long takin' his time
bout IT. quiet as a French graveyard up
] f.. a1f
rome You'd a'said firm IN way he
slipped through tn cold water easier n
any snake wat ev'r made a ripple as he
were used q beln' blowed up an reether
liked It T. keep him FIRM feelin' lonesome.
I says 70 m'se'f: You ain human. an /
quit him right there"
"Weng said the other man.
Il happened T. be long mex summr
an fr OF frienships sake / thort Ia
look him up Wen anything. man ar
! burd ur beas. gifts nj bes' O. me / may
GIT nighty rr awhile, but arterward
wants T. hunt him up an sell him ne done
Il fair So / puts IN a day locatin' tn
mink. An l IN him In tn same wat.uh
an / lays by jus to watch him kin feesh.
J see him plain 'nough. tn wattuh then
bein low. lie benin III rock ] now got
my pole on an jump out al bass wat
Vert by him an nip EN- back o. m
haid an let em drif down Evry now
an then he'd bite out a chunk, jus L
show hi hull tribe they warnt no coll
ness. an begin agin TO murder an T.
alay, like Pcte kernigan's song says
~ lay quiet fr IN bes' part o. three
day an we're beslnnin' git Tired an sigh
f'r som'p'n else. wen ] see a bigger rifle
'nushui comm down an thinks g. m'se'f
they's a big bass un'er IT, Wen Il got
clost 4 tn mink see him plain. 1t were
a bass shore nough. an nothin like him
never swum up an down tn Flambeau
afore nur sence. A feller what ! guided
! rr one time spoke piece me out'n
book, somp'n bout a red-eye bass bein'.
inch fr inch an poun r. poun'. lh'
games thing wat swims. an ! tell you It
ain no lie. ! Gays L. mse'f; Brother
Mink. ef you tackle that prop sishun.
you'll think dynermite ain nothin' but
I tooth powder I says. r. this hero feesh
mus weighed eight poun' As he swimmed
Or eight an a 'arf
Shore as leeue apples n float tn
mink made his spring as tn bass passed
him. but fas' as he were he hit a good
two foot benin IN red-eyc ~ere fifty
foot down stream IN less'n a quarter
O. IN time it'd take man like you 70
think. an there he turned an lay with
his hald upstream. his tail wavin' back
cred an forrerd his side fms jus hutter-
In a leetle bit an HIS red eye shlnin'
un'er m watmh ike a coal Seemed
q me tn mink felt sorter foolish. Any
how, he turned his Eead down. an bit
hisse'f un'sr tn lef foreleg q see ef he
were awake. ar jus thinkin he were
awake Then he started down. careless
an neBlectful. like he we're talkin to
hisse'f an nayln N.Y. ain you easy!'
p" Tain on'n / try & hor M breath.
but ] held 1t then. Thr-e secan's later
they ras a thing Mapped a good man
oris. laavel thsusaA' mile 10 see. ur
mebbe twelve hundred. tn mink jumped
forrcrd expectin' IN bass e turn an
give him tn t.iihold but. stead on that
tn bass met him more'n arr way. He
met him 80 hard an hit him such a bin
atween tn forelegs that / could hear
it Were I was. an man. want you to
know this was goin' or un'cr III wattuh
an tn wattuh itse'f maxim a LOT o.
noise ike wal Il alters makes wen it's
7HaAti On Aucnl mere fDtihe. IN mink
were druv back yard. Ike I seen big
log hit a straight bank an jump back.
an then he went forrcrd. nose T. nose.
lie n thing had L be ended there an
then
III were in a leesie pool. mebbe I'VE
foot deep, an that pool were jus solid
foam on top. Outn m foam come. like
a fountain were sproutin' far an scales
an scales an fur an blood an a bone
ur two an iremenjus amotherauon an
a sorter strange cry. like a leetle child
were los soEnew'eres an couldn't I'M It's
way home. Wen I turned loose my
breath my heart wer' goin' like one O.
these pile drivin things m plugs on tn
railroads works with. an tn pool stopbed
swirlln' an got smooth on top AKIN.
They weren't nothin ler fr me & do
cen t stay stin an think rr awsiie.
an I thinks Ibis: A man may live IN
these woods rr ten thousan' years. an
wen he sits through he won see it
an. nur a art @ it, nur quarter an
he won't know nothin' cep he don know
northin
7 walks down stream rr a mile an
! see th' feesh Hoaiin' "a a eddy I pulls
him a ei,ore an looks ~ hin, II. go.