The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-10-18
ODD TRICKS OF PRAIRIE DOGS
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(ChiCago Inter OCEAN,
k6'TNHAT kind O. sounds to me-" said the
old westerner. skepticaHy, when a
Texan had finished telling the
other day about a village OF green prairie
dogs that he once came across in the
n sounds to me. and I believe you're
either a-lyin' or that you wuz drunk at
the time and I amt a-sayin which.
Tain likely a prairie dog counld stay
in Texas very long without ChanEin' his
color. and there amt much impossible
FOR a prairie dog TO do the old man
went on 20 say. as he DIT OF a heavy
chunk OF tobacco. You mightn't believe
s. but I've seed them critters do some
mighty peculiar things.
ct recouect oncet. when 7 lived out near
she foothills IN Colorado. that the prairie
DOGS got so alfred plentiful and tame
that I had to get outen the region. IN
never forget one experience I had with
'em- 7 went out there TO raise stock and
I had one old SOW Well sir. that old
Cow had the finest litter Of pigs YOU ever
seed west OF the Missouri. and they
RrOwed and DrosDered like a coyote on
chicken ranch. But all to onCet 7 noticed
the little piss begun to losin' weight and
Fhrinkiu no I couldn't figure Il out
what wuz the matter, but doctored en-
and II didn't help a bit. Finally them
pigs all dried ND and died. though the
old sow KEEP her usual good health and
spirits.
Found the Prairie Dogs Busy.
Ct laid the whole thing TO the climate.
and thought young pigs couldn't live
where it wuz so dry. and I reckon I'd be
a-thinkin' the same thing now If l hadn't
learned different Well sir. one day I
WIZ a-wallIin' uD TO the sod barn when I
seed the old SOW a-layin' out I'm the lot.
] walked over to where she wuz. and
when 1 cot over there I'll bet not less
fifty prairie dogs took sneak fer their
holes But some of EN- didn't run. They
simply STAYED right where they WIZ and
kent on a-nursin' that old SOW.
IT never seed such fat and fine-lOOkiu'
prairie dogs in my life as they wuz and
les stood there and laughed. Then L
thought about how them pigs had starved
10 DEATH and 10 made me mad. gave a
kick at that layout OF dogs and they
started on run 10 their holes. They
WIZ stuffed so fun they couldn't run
much. and when they got 20 their holes
thev WIZ sweled up so they couldn't
The more I thought about them pigs
the madden I got. and 7 pitched in an
kicked the davlights Outen every prairie
dog ] could get near They wuz so fat
they couldn't run. an they les set still
and let me kick EN- until I got ashamed
on myself and moseyed back to the sod
hut
can believe IL or not. but III Won ever find
the remains of that sod hut vou'U find
there's still plenty OF the descendauts 81
them prairie dogs still loafin round thar
nciEhborhood.
The Deer They Couldn't Shoot.
I've seed lots o. queer things ont I'm
that country. For instance. there rrst IN
be a biz buck deer on the hills that wuz
= Jim DANDY. He'd been in that country
fer wears and he had bunch Of prOurs
on his head that would make YOU tired
a-countin en- We ust to get up huntfD.
parties 10 try and kin the old fener, but
no matter how clOst we got 70 him and
how much lead we pumped az him no one
could ever get his hide and antlers. N
would stand twenty PAGES away and look
At YOU and let YOU shoot at him till your
gun barrels matted
II reckon that deer would a ben Twin