Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-09-10

tame it. 1t will come to you
and live with you and sleep
with you. All you have to do is sim
ply to conceal your own curiosity.
Whenever you see wild animal In
the woods go toward him carelessly.
Let the creature know that you have
seen him and then suddenly change
your course or do something to show
that you aren't apparently interested
in him. Pay absolutely no attention to
him. He knows that you saw him and
yet went about your own business
without offering to harm him. That
animal will never forget you.
It is not man that the wild animal
as afraid of. but the human scent If
a deer. for instance. sees man stand
ing still in the forest and the wind Is
blowing in the wrong way for him to
catch the scent, be thinks the man Is
q part of the forest just like a log or
tree. but the minute he catches the
scent he is on the alert. Perhaps In
mis- own life the human scent has
meant danger to him. One the other
hand, while it may never have bother
ed him, the human scent may have
meant injury to some of his forbears
and SO he naturally inherits the in
stinctive fear. @
However, in that scent the animal
can analyze the man. He can instinc-
lively read a mans character by bis
smell. This is the reason why deer
will fly from one person the moment
be gets his scent, while he will stand
by and watch out OF curiosity another
man who means him no harm.
Deer and moose never SIGHT unless
cOrnered. Even the wildcat will stink
away to the underbruSh at the sound
OF a mans football. A hunger enrag-
ed wolf will never dare approach
Ere. Fire is protection from any ami
mai.
All kinds of dogs will come up to
me. They seem to know instinctiv@Iy
that / am their friend. don't care
how cross a dog is | can readily make
friends with him.
Don't think for a moment that won
can say to any ugly dog Nice doggy
in a voice that is quavering with fear
and get away with it, The dog wont
pay any attention to the nice doggy
part. but be will scent that fear.
There was one saucy chipmunk that
used to come and visit me daily at my
Bear mountain lean-tO. He would
chatter with me. fill his chops with
bits of food and scurry away TO bury
them. Sometimes be would come
around three or four times day He
paid no more attention to me- rs far
as being afraid OF me was concerned.
than as If | were not there.
One day while | was cooking some
trout | heard an awful disturbance
around the back of my lean-tO. in
yestigated and found a furious battle
going on between a red squirrel and
my friend the chipmunk The big red
squirrel had trespassed on the chip
munk's stamping ground, and. OF
course, that would never do. 1t was
a dreadful fight for little fellows to be
engaged in. Around and around they
tore. through the leaves, under the
tangIe, over fallen trunks, up the trees
and down again. Occasionally they
came together, and then nothing could
be seen but one flying ball of fur. Get
ting apart again. they would rest
second, painting, before resuming the
contest
Swish! They were at it again. and
another wild scene would be repeated,
In the end that spunky little chipmunk
actually beat the red squirrel and drove
him off.
After that the red squirrel used to
come around every day and from a
distance would scream and scold at
the chipmunk 1.-THE red squirrel has
sort of bark. Then he would see me
and begin to bark at me because he
knew was friendly with the chip
munk. At this the chipmunk came
right mp to me and began to play
around my feet. though J had never
attempted TO make friends with him.
He made friends with me-.
| knew what went on in the minds
of these little animals
Sleeping with ones back against the
roots of a spruce bIowdown in fair
weather is not the worst thing in the
world, but that morning when | aWoKe
in the wilderGess-the day after | had
found the deer killed,by the wildcat
it was raining hard
Digging down into my pack. found
some dried raspberries, OF which ate
sparingly.
After breakfast packed up my small
daarskin and bearskin and started on
again along the natural game lralI.
Tor cATARRlH of the nose, throat,
u stomach, bowels and more delicate
L 4olrr HnnH1c SQrCQ.