Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1908-01-22

belongs. That's a scab ferret, fer |
ret that's taking the food and clothing
out of the mouths of faithful union
ferrets. It's my belief that is an i'm
ported pauper-labor ferret
Uncle Billy was mighty indignant
at hearing his little worker abused
That's an American ferret, trained
and educated by an honest American
farmer. AS to his being a nonurAsn
ferret, he's president, secretary, and
sole charter member of Ferrets' union
No. l. He's the pioneer and ancestor
of race of cable-laying ferrets.
pete, finding that he wasn't able
10 stir up any hard feeling against the
ferret on the labor question, went
away, growing and grumbling to him
self. But it panied him to see all the
good coin Uncle Billy was making.
a few days later Uncle Billy took a
contract to lay the cables through a
conduit in nearby town. He hao
grown so proud of his success that he
bcasted freely, and Pete heard of the
contract and went over to the town
the day before Uncle Billy was to be-
gin work l warned Uncle Billy that
Pete was up to some mischief.
Pete isn't making that trip, just
! to arrange things comfortably for YOU
i I.told him. You had better make some
inspection of the conduits before you
send your trusted ferret into them
but, no, it was the ferret's business
to look out for the conduit end of the
work, and Urcle Billy wasn't going to
| disturb his head about it. The next
day, when everything was ready for
work he released rat, and the fer
ret chased it into the first conduit, In
about a minute out came the rat, then
came a skunk, and last of all, the fer
ret But he looked pretty disguised
with his job.
| 1.-The ferret has done what he con-
considers a good days work under the
circumstances l said to Uncle Billy
You had better let him have the rest
of the day Off
Uncle Billy didn't see it that way
and insisted on sending the ferret in
to another conduit. Pete had evident
ly done a thorough job, for the ferret
I
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 a 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 stick began beating
the ferret
DO you think brought you to this
town just to have you give an exhibit
ton of ferret in a tantrum? said
2 Uncle Billy angrily. No ferret that is
afraid of few skunks win ever make
a his mark in the great world of ferrets
/ THE ferret didn't look at it in this
s light, and as Uncle Billy kept on beat
g ing him, he finally turned with a little
t snarl. bit Uncle Billy on the hand, aaC
e then scampered away at the top of hi!
e speed. Uncle Billy was almost heart
d broken at the loss of his valued as
a sistant, and seeme2 to think the ferre
Il had been mighty ungrateful
S I've educated and cherished tina
ferret like son. said Uncle Billy sol
tOMluli9s ahO AOns OA dCCOuuI VI
e few playful taps with a stick, h
S abandons me in the middle of cor
IS tract. Ingratitude. thy name is fel
ret
n "'Your pet wasn't entirely t
1t blame told Uncle Billy severely
le Even the Omost faithful OF ferret
n would draw the line on going agalns
u that odoriferous conduit game tire
y times in the same day"