The Red Cloud chief., 1920-09-09
Give IT TO MOLE
Little Animal Hereby Qualities as
a Samson.
Venerable Fisherman Tells Story That
Should Remove All Doubt Con.
cerning the Strength OF the
Small Earth Disturber

"DO You want TO know the most
powerful animal for It's size In the
world?"
The question was asked just after
n venerable fisherman had landed Il
fine eastern brook trout, says Howard
VI. Wright in the Portland Orcgo-
Man. We were standing on the shore
Of one Of the lakes we'll back I'm the
Cascades.
! had only q few moments before
unslung my pack at his cabin, and,
taking trail that led 10 the lake, had
found him right in his glory. |. of
course. was interested In getting all
the data the old fellow had to offer
and we sat down on log and as he
produced II Missouri meerschaum I
handed out n box of tobacco. He pro-
cecded to fill up with what he called
his fnvorte brand next to H. o.
That gave me clcw and knew
at once the ancient angler could tell
some big ones. lie fred up deliber-
atcly and crossed his legs in leis-
urely manner.
"'is I'll, NV il'i 'u'' i''h-
on, according to what one Of them
scientists told me that happened in
here while back that the mole has
got 'em all stopped. I had been tell
ing some stories about being towed
around in n boat by big fish off'n
the Newfoundland banks and after l
got through he waited n little while
and then said:
"Well, captain, I have never had a
lot of experience with big fish, but I
certainly had my eyes opened one
day. I had accidentally caught a live
mole. and for no particular reason
brought 1t into the house and put 1t
on the floor. 1t began to wander
about the room and finally came up
against the leg of chair which had
pened TO he up close to the wall. The
mole smelled It over little. backed
up little, shifted some and put his
nose in between that chair and the
wall and pushed her aside as II she
had been puff ball.
"That certainly got my interest,
so said to myself. "Looka here,
Mr.. Mole, well try you out and see
what your limits are" l hunted
around until found a Webster's die
tionary and big family Bible.
placed these on the chair and piled
other books on top of them until that
chair would hold no more and wait
ed for him to try it out.
"'Pretty soon he Came. keeping
hr
stopped to sniff, but walked right
through.
""That got me, but scratched my
| head little and when I saw Mr.. Mole
coming up for the third time l Jumped
on top Of the pile Of books. But
II was no use; he Rept right on go
ing and slid the whole business Of us
right to one side.
"Well. I was somewhat amazed, but
suddenly n thought came to me and I
went out and called In my neighbor,
n big, fat man, weighing a few pounds
under 300. He straddled aboard.
"'On came the mole, this time his
muscles fairly standing out to get into
the fray. But he was no fOolhardy
young mole. He took time to size
M the situation sort of shrugged his
| shoulders and acted as II he was spit
| ting on his hands. Finally he poked
his nose in between the legs of that
chair and the wall and raised those
mighty shoulders. The chair creaked
little, moved slowly to one side and
the mole passed-but the chair broke
Al, r,. ,yith a
thud on the mole's back. And, do you
know, that mole hesitated only mo-
ment and then started for the corner
Of the room, carrying the fat man on
his back"