The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-01
MOUNTAIN ANIMALS TRAINED

that he could catch more trout nor amy
man in Franklin county. The squire
kind o. insinOoated thot Bige always
did hate to tell the thruth. anyway.
Sc rTH tell yez phwat OFH do, Squire,
SEE the man Bige. OH bet my ould
fox hound agin yer rife that ORR get
q dozen trout insOid av half an hour
The Squire took him up, an we all
whit TO the brook close by. Ye cud see
the speckled fish shwimmin' about In
it. The man goes inther his coat
pocket an brings out a small animal
he says were hiss young tame otter, an
whispers to him an puts him in the
wather The otter war back agin in
sold av a minnit wild a trout in his
mouth. which he laid at his masther's
fate an war of inther the wather
agin.
I" .Av all the qusre fshin', thot bates
thin ALL. OF sez to Alan. InsOid av
twinty minnits the haste had a bakers
dozen av the fish for the man.
Oil take yer gun, Squire Owe
won IT. he SEE, as cool as the marnin'
air. The Squire handed it over w1dout
a wor-rd.
e .HuIIol Phwat is goin' on? Town
meetin', eh?' asst a man thOt jist KEN
thrampin' across the field.
g No, be gosh! We sot out for deer
an fetched up at fish. Say. Sim, We
didn't see amy tame catamounts nor
talkin' bears as ye KEN over CHERRY
Hill way did YEP SEE me frind Alan.
." Not NANNY to sp9ke on. war
goin' over to the woods wild me pet
weazeI to catch some squirrels for
marin to mex a pie for dinner the
man they called Sim COons answered,
as he tuck the weasel out av his
pocket.
Alan. acushla, whisper! Is 1t the
custom for the min up here to get ami
mails to do their huntin' an fishin' an
farm work., OF dunno? Have yeZ
amy haste thotH catch deer for me.
now that We have no gum Oh SEE to
me frind
He shtarted to say somethin', but
shtOpped bekase o an argument
bechune Dandemar an Spurlock- Each
wan argyfied thot his haste cud catch
more fish than the other, an as they
war-r-n4Sd up to it an lost their tim
pers the rist av the min gathered
around.
The mink wud bate the otter two
to wan, as shure as God med little
apples SEE the Squire.
ORR bet this gun agin a gallon av
hard cider it can't SEE Spurlock, wild
his foightin' blood up.
THE Squire SEE he'd take the bet
Sim Coons SEE he'd bet his pet weaZel
on the otter, an Dandemar put Alam's
gun agin the weazeI. GOBLIN med a
bet wild Donaldson on the mink. OF
held me peace, as Oh didn't know the
differ betwixt an bechune the two
bastes for hshin' A log war thrown
inther the brook. an the agreement
war thOt the mink should fish on wan
sOide av it an the otter on the other.
Both whit inther the wather at the
same tonne, an the min stud back so
as not to frighten the trout. The otter
war the fust wan out wild a shmall
fish thOt he dropped from his mouth
at his masther's fate.
IS Bully boyi OF knowed he'd VIM
shouted SpurlOck, as he patted the
haste an STINT it back inther the brook.
=" Wait till the half hours up fore
ye shout, answers the SQUIRE.
out comes the otter wild another
speckled trout, an then the mink wild
a big wan. The mink got two more
insoide av a minnit. an at the ind av
fifteen minnits the mink had nineteen
fish and the other eliven Thin the
fish GOT frightened an put aft l0lke the
wind. It wanted foive mianits be the
Squire's watch whin the mink had
twinty-siven fish an the other four
teen.
He'll catch two to wan, Ell. Squire?
Oiu take thOt cider on me way home,
SCI Sourlock wild a chuckle-
Dandemaf gave the mink a sup out
av a bottle he had an the haste al
most flew in an out av the brook wild
trout, an big vans. too. Whin the
Squire called the tonne the otter had
Jis sixteen hsh an the mink had
thirty-thrce.
orr throubIe We for my rife seq
the Squire 10 Spurloek.