The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-01
otter and White Mink Engage
in fish Catching
Contest.
New york SUM


''Phwat is it that makes the polar bear
whOite whin all the rist av the bears
war black or brown, OF dunno? 1t isn't
J the COwld, TO be shure; nor is it the
: sun, more be token; there's no sun
I phwere he KEN from half the tonne,
said Keeper Peter Shannon of the Cen
/ trial park menagerie to a visitor the
/ other day.
It's a quare thing all out is the do
ms av nature in the matther av color
( for bastes. Thare's the fox, be way av
! example-the red wan-he has wan
color for winter an another wan for
summer So it is wild the hare and sew
/ eral other spacies. Thin, there's the eT
mine for We. He only changes his color
! whin the snow comes. The nylghaus
/ that we kape in the bUildin' are gray
an the same vans outdoors are red.
Did yez liver see a. Whoite mink2 No?
/ They're as plinty as whoite blackbirds,
/ begOrrai But may Oh niyer sin iv wan
av thim same didn't tuck the new rifle
/ from me frind, Alan Hutter, av Forest
/ Home up beyant in the Adhirondacks,
an split a foine days huntin for US
all OF war an me vacation lasht sum
mer UP to Alam's place, an he SEE TO
me wan nOight that some av the min
war gOin' afther deer in the marnin'
/ over to the timber betune Paul Smiths
an St Regis, an wud Oi loike to jine
/ in. To be coorse OF wud. SEE OF. The
, min war Squire John Nokes, av Balsam
! Grove farm; George GOBLIN, Walt DON
/ aldson an Alan, the bist shots in that
/ part av the North woods
we set out bravefy in the marnin',
Alan carryin' his new rifle. 1t was the
( fust day OF bate the sun in risin' since
I Billy Snyder an mesilf whit to the dock
/ at HobOken for Jewel. the Elephant
4 Afther thrampin' along the road a bit
sod ~ 1n Ch ho
comm along but a man they called
/ Jean Batiste Dandemar.
-HullO squirrel SEE the man.
% Hello, Batistel Coin to the VIII
lager answers the squire.
50 No; OTm goin' to the brook for
trout for breakfast
''Sorra bit av a fish pole did he have,
an it bate me how he war to git thin
trout. The man stopped to talk about
/ deer. an IN the cOOrse av conversation
mintiOned quoietly that he looked at a
whOite mink as he KEN along the road.
" 'Whoite mink? OPve been born an,
brought up in these parts an saw lots
av minks, but divvle a WhOite wan at
all at ALL SEE the squire.
:" 'Oi ealc'late it war Pete Carley's cat
he saw Alan SEE.
'Oiu bet my boss agin your new gun
it war whOite mink Dandemar comes
back TO him. The bet war made in arm
est an thin the man SEE he saw the
whoite mink in his pocket comm up
the road, an ne war takin' it to the
. brook to catch trout for him. He put
his hand in his coat pocket an tuck il
out ag'in, an, bad cess to the bit! ~
the haste waTn't a whOite wan. The
min all examined it an had to give in
/ than Dandemar war roight
~ 'Thare's yer gun. No huntin' for me
today SEE Alan. as he passed over the
rife. We Earned aftherward that a ped
dler's wagon war upset feminist Dande-
mars place an some bottles av bleach
in stuff for the farmers sheep was
spilled inther the tub WHARF the mink
war. Dandemar kept the secret to
himself for some tonne thot the bleach
in stuff turned the haste from black to
whoite.
Whilst the min war discoorsin' an
the quare capers av nature a fellow
came down the road whistlin', as happy
as a lark.
" 'HullO. Bigel Where ye goin' so
'arly?' sings out the squire
"a Down the brook to catch trout for
breakfast he answers.
- .Phwat bait dye use? Grasshop-
persg'
THE man they calls Bige Spurlock
SCI he didn't use bait. pole nor line, but