The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-08-22
Travellers Tales


Sam Crabbe, fancy and freak chick
en- raiser OF this city, also civil ensi-
neer. handed the Traveller man of The
Forum clipping which he says came
from The New York World, and as he
produced the article he merely made
the remark:
by thunder, I'm going to try it."
Here is the clipping: 81
Levi Brunskill of Centerville, N. j.,
has devoted considerable time to
catching and marketing frogs for
Newark, N. j., in the past year. In
fact, ever since his scheme for con-
structing concrete peglegs for Grip
pie inmates of the county almshouse
who We're prone to whittIe the wooden
ones was rejected by the Board of
Freeholders, he has been developing
the frog leg business until he can see
vast riches ahead. 1t has been
source Of disappointment, however,
that the frogs he sold to a ready mar
ket had only two legs really accepta-
BILE to customers.
Early this spring Brunskill began
experimenting on frogs that visited
q shallow pond at the foot of Racers
Hill near Centerville.. He captured
fifty young frogs and tied their hind
legs with fine piano wire, guaranteed
not to rust. His theory was that the
frogs, finding their rear legs useless
would learn to use their forelegs and
develop the latter into marketable
proportions.
"The scheme has appeared to work
very well. For a time, however, per-
sons living near the dam thought the
place was haunted, as the hobbled
frogs had habit of getting on the
stone that covered the bank and
stunning the piano wire In an eff
fort to lose their letters. When TWEEN
ty or thirty frogs got going at the
same time there was strange music
Some neighbors when they found out
the cause of the strange noises threat
ened to have him arrested for cruelty
to animals, but he pointed out that
frogs did not come under that cate
CORY.
Everything is going along smooth
ly now toward ultimate success for
Brunskill. He reckons that about
three generations treated with his
patent legbinders will develop a new
race Of frogs that will be a source
Of great revenue to him and delight
to every sourmand."
G. F. Leonard Of Fargo, manager
of the American Steel e. Wire Co., for
North Dakota, was recently on a
Northern Pacific train when he had
his feelings badly shattered and this
was brought about by an Oregon land
mans roast Of North Dakota. The
Oregon man was intent on running
down the virtues Of the FTickertail
state, which he said was too cold in
winter and too hot in summer, and
he went on at a lively rate to tell of
crop failures, dire disasters, and he
gave the state an awful roast. Mr..
Leonard stood it about as long as he
could and the way he sailed into that
Oregon man was a caution. Said No.
why you relative of Ananias, don't
you know that there never was a state
in the union that came to the front
as rapidly as did North Dakota? Yes,
we are cold here sometimes, but let
dry kind that you don't feel taoinoi
me ask you, isn't 1t the coldness of the
dry kind that you don't feel. Isn't
ure in years and years? Isn't this
crop all right even IL it is a trifle
short? It's all right for you to sell all
the Oregon land you can, but you are
only hurting another state, and one
too, that is so great and good to live
in as the state Of North Dakota
why doggone you old skin I wouldn't
give two acres Of our blue sky for
all the state of Oregon"
The fellow sort Of skunk back in
his seat in the chair car, spluttered
and got red in the face, but the train
had reached Mr.. Leonard's destina-
ton, and before the Oregon landman
could think of anything to say in re-
taliation, the Fargo man was gone, It
was stated by a traveller that the lan0
man never spoke for two hours and
that then all he said was: "Well, I'll
be Jiggered."