The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-02-20
SOME TRUE NATURE STORIES
BY SALMON SCHOOL PUPILS

BY SALMON SCHOOL PUPILS
Fifth and sixth graders in one of
the Salmon schools furnish the fol-
lowing contributions. which show the
writers to be candidates for high hon
ors in natural history stories. These
anecdotes are original compositions
and are given just as written:
Once when my Dad and / were 60
ing to our mine our dog went ahead.
Pretty soon he came tearing down
the hill with a coyote after him.
When the dog reached US the coyote
turned around and went away.-Ru-
jdolph Steples.
We have a cat that seems like a
wild cat and he won't let any one
touch him but our own family He
has little tufts on his ears and he
growls just like wild cat
He went off one night and there
was some coyote traps about a mile
from our house and he got caught in
one of them. We did not find him
until the next afternoon His foot
swelled up awful big and did not get
well for a long time.
/ He is lot bigger than an ordinary
cat and is just as cranky as can be-
Fred Randolph.
When | lived at Lemhi we had a
bay-dappled horse which would jump
over any fence there was around.
One evening l was plowing potatoes
and this horse was in field. When
| returned to the house saw the
horse standing at the kitchen door
l wondered what was the matter with
the animal and found he had tried
to jump over the hay corral fence
and cut his foot on some wire and
was waiting for me to return to tend
his foot.-Jack Grady.
Dodge is a little white dog with q
brown head.
4 One day he wanted some candy
which is not at all unusual. but the
unusual thing is. he hoped up on the
the Davenport and sat up with hi.
back against the Davenport and ther
whined for the candy. OF course
gave him some, and ever since tha
he has sat up for every thing HI
wants only now he sits in the mid
die of the floor.
Many times my sister and hav,
dressed him up in doll clothes he Il
: so small but he takes 1t all good nat
. luredly.-Eletha Bradley.
One day we were out on the cliff
playing around in the rocks when on
, of the children saw porcupine. o
course we were a little afraid |
would hurt us. 1t started to run on
way when we started the other
When we thought we were ia
enough away we began to play agar
Near sundown we started for hom
: and as we were going down the otf
er side of the hill We again met tn
. porcupine again. This time he b,
gan to throw quills at US. You sure
ly ought to have seen us run. w
were out of sight of the porcupin
: when we were home. We told me
ma what had happened and she JUS
: laughed at us.-Gertrude Harris.
: One day I came home from schoo
and tied my horse in the barn, the
C went into the house. Soon cam
back out and the first thing | sa,
i was an old hen run out of the bar
1 the barn and there l saw Babe. m
r horse. with a mouth full of feathers
!, He had pulled the feathers out of tn
e of the shells were still in the fee
/ trough. That old horse still suck
/ eggs and chases chickens.-Joh
p Bennett.
J. One night we left our broom on
e side the door. The next moring whe
e we got up there wasn't straw in !
IL The next night we put our old brooI
r outside and my brothers and myse
II planned to stay up to see If we coul
find out what it was. Pretty soon "
heard something coming up the wall
1t stopped close to the door,. M
e brothers opened the door and ther
h was horse After that we kept OF
y brooms inside and the gate fastene'
r. Viola Lee.
d One time my mother and fathe
n my brother and were out campin
IS 1t was in the morning about mir
e o'clock when looking for the sugs
'e and the cookies We found our o
fe horse Pat quietly eating them. +
h had got them out of the wagon. "
10 found that the top of the keg W,
n too small for him to get his nose i
e. SO he had spilled them out so
le could eat them more easily. He hs
70 eaten nearly all the sugar.-Mildr'
C. Pfremmer
I'd One time when there was ban
in Of sheep going by our house al /
;. dianola there was little lamb tn
&c. was blind and couldn't get along
RI, the herder gave him to papa We
m so we liked him and he would folio
US around if we blattei so 1t woul
mt run into anything. We had
piece of old carpet for it sleep in.
IN he got frightened at anything
lg would get under the piece Of carp
of and stay until he was over his frigi
at Ethel Allen.
is
er have a little black and viii
ge spotted dog which is very small.
in also have a very large black a.
ly white Spoftpd cat