Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1908-01-17

belongs. That's 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 nonunion
ferret, he's president secretary, and
sole charter member of Ferrets' union
No. 1. He's the pioneer and ancestor
of race of cable-laying ferrets.
Pete, finding that he wasn't able
to 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 a 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
the day before Uncle Billy was to be-
gin work. ! warned Uncle Billy that
Pete was up to some mischief
Pete isn't making that trip just
to arrange things comfortably for you.
told him. You had better make some
inspection of the conduits before you
send your trusted ferret into them
But, no, 1t was the ferret's business
to look out for the conduit end of the
work, and Uncle 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.
The ferret has done what he con
considers 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 1t that way
and insisted on sending the ferret in
to another conduit. Pete had evident
| ly done a 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 odo1
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 a stick began beating
the ferret
=" Do you think | brought you to this
town just to have you give an exhibi
ton of a ferret in a tantrum?' sale
Uncle Billy angriIy. No ferret that Ii
afraid of few skunks will ever make
his mark in the great world of ferrets.
The ferret didn't look at it in this
light and as Uncle Billy kept on beat
ing him, he finally turned with a littl,
snarl, bit Uncle Billy on the hand, anc
then scampered away at the top of hii
speed. Uncle Billy was almost heart
broken at the loss of his valued as
sistant, and seemed to think the ferre
had been mighty ungrateful
Give educated and cherished tina
ferret like a son. said Uncle Billy sor
rowfully, and now, on account of
few playful taps with stick, h,
abandons me in the middle of a con
tract Ingratitude, thy name is fel
ret
"'Your pet wasn't entirely t.
blame, | told Uncle Billy severely
Even the most faithful of ferret
would draw the line on going agains
that odoriferous conduit game thre
times in the same dav'"
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