Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-11-25
GET TO TALKING ABOUT
FUNNY ADVENTURES
Gents About Town Swapping
Stories About Things That
Gave Them a "Kick"

IlOdLlllS al Oullu III ILdSlG TClVeI
there are many stories Of adventure
that are too good for one man or
small clique to keep coralled. We
of the Villas County News this
week stumbled onto a few of them
and feel obliged to give them to
the world. They don't make litera-
ture, but they do make good read
ing. We are looking for more, be-
cause we believe in the old saying:
Laugh, and the world laughs with
you"
AS said, we are looking for more.
And we will find some more; but if
you have had a funny adventure
that spiced your life, pass it on,
like the gentlemen and lady below
quoted have done. Drop in and
tell about it.
Bruno Ewald has been keeping
this classic to himself more or less
with the result that few people
know Of this story. He relates:
Last fall my brother Max and
were duck hunting up on the
Blackjack. We were padding along
in a canoe but for some reason or
other the creek didn't seem to 90
the right direction for Max. He
didn't think we would ever reach
the splinghole if wee kept 70 the
creek so we got out and walked.
Max was ahead, as he always is,
afraid that someone else would get
the first shot at mallard. He was
not looking to right or left or
where he was walking. Some dis
lance up the creek we came to
where a little sloughhole emptied
into the main stream. There was
little bridge across this slough but
a little off to one side of the trail.
Max with his eye glued on the hori-
ION never noticed where the bridge
began but stepped off into the
muck up to his waist. When he
had sunk to his thigh on one leg he
tried to right himself with the re-
suit that he swan the slough.
When he emerged on the other
side he resembled something that
the cat had dragged in and dis
carded. The torture of wanting to
laugh was so great that | nearly
passed out of this life trying to
hold myself in. Had | laughed, l
knew from the look in his eye that
! would have been murdered in cold
blood. Just ask Max how hunting
is up on the Blackjack and sec
what rise you can get out Of
him."
Larry Morgan with a surveying
crew up on the Deerskin tells: I'VE
had all our eats in one small tent
away from the rest of the tents.
In order that nothing could get at
our grub or anyone walk away
with it one of the fellows slept in
that tent. In the night a porcu-
pine stumbled into camp, chewed a
hole in one corner of the tent and
helped himself to everything with
in reach. The guard slept peace
fully through the whole mess"
Howard Olmstead, of the Black
and White Taxi, relates: When |
took Frank Sallmen down to the
hospital for the insane at Oshkosh
last week, l had with me Clifford
Thompson and Jimmy Burns. We
were shown into the office of the
doctor who was to examine the pa
tient. The doctor performed his
duty and called for an intern to
take the man to his ward. The in
tern entered the room, looked us
all over; his face registered puzzled
mystery and turning to the doctor,
he asked, Which one?'
Frank Jonash tells of a duck
hunting expedition that still US
wildly in his memory: Il shot
helldiver, thinking it was 2al
duck" he relates. Il didn't Gov
that | was showing how hAA |
knew about the sport. For the
next two weeks all l heard was
about that helldiver. They would
not let me forget it even for
minute. Then we went hunting
again. One of the same chaps who
had been "razzing' me so hard saw
duck swimming up the creek. He
up and lets drive and down goes
the duol ,o+b;,O. b,,+ n LoI1Ji,,a,. "