Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-12-13

belongs. That's n scab ferret. n fer
ret that's taking the food and clothing
out OF the mouths Of faithful union
fcrrcts. It's my belief that In an I'm.
ported paupcriabor ferret
Uncle Billy was mighty indignant
at hcarin. his little worker abused.
That's an American ferret. trained
and educated by nm honest American
farmer. Az to his bcin. n nonunion
ferret. he's president. secretary. and
sole charter member Of Fcrrcts' union
No. 1. He's tho pioneer and ancestor
of race of cablc-inyinE fcrrcts.
pete. finding that he wasn't able
to stir up any hard fcclin. against the
ferret on the labor question. went
away. growing and Irumbling to him
self. but II panied him to see all the
good coin Uncle Billy was making.
A few days later Uncle Billy took n
contract to lay the cables through n
conduit In n nearby town. He hao
grown so proud Of his success that he
boosted freely. and Pete heard OF the
contract and went over to the town
tho day before Uncle Billy was to be.
gin work. warned Uncle Billy-thnt
Pete was up TO some mischief.
Pete isn't making that trip just
to arrange things comfortably for you.
I told him. You had better make some
inspection OF the conduits before you
send your trusted ferret into them 9.
But. no. II was the ferrcts business
to look out for the conduit end OF the
work, and Uncle Billy wasn't going to
disturb his head about II. The next
day. when everything was ready for
work, he released a rat. and the fer
ret chased IT into the first conduit. In
about n minute out came the rat. then
came n skunk, and last Of all. the fer.
ret. But he looked pretty disgusted
with his job.
1.-The ferret has done what he con.
considers good days work under the
circumstances ] said to Uncle Billy.
You had better let him have the rest
Of the day on ''''
uncle Billy didn't see II that way
and insisted on sending the ferret in
to another conduit. Pete had evident
ly done thorough job. for the ferret
looked even more weary when he
came out of the second conduit than
when he had left the first. The odor
he gave out showed that he had good
reasons for his disgust. When Uncle
Billy tried to send him into third
conduit, even the faithful. hard-work-
ing ferret decided he had had enough
of it. Then Uncle Billy lost his tenn
per, and Selling n stick began beating
the ferret.
"'Do you think brought you to this
town Just to have you give an exhibl-
ton OF ferret In a tantrum?' said
Uncle Billy angrily. No ferret that is
afraid of a few skunks will ever make
his mark in the great world OF ferrets.'
1.-The ferret didn't look at 1t in this
light. and as Uncle Billy kept on beat
ing him, he finally turned with little
snarl. bit Uncle Billy on the hand, and
then scampered away at the top OF his
speed. Uncle Billy was almost heart
broken at the loss of his valued as.
sistant, and seemed to think the ferret
had been mighty ungrateful.
1--we educated and cherished that
ferret like son. said Uncle Billy sor-
rowfully. and now. on account of
few playful taps with stick. he
abandons me in the middle OF a con-
tract. Ingratitude. thy name is fer
ret
Your pet wasn't entirely to
blame, told Uncle Billy severely
Even the most faithful OF ferrets
would draw the line on going against
that odoriferous conduit game three
times In the same day"