The mink haz 4 times the kunning that the musk rat haz, and iz bilt long and slim like a little girl’s stocking.
They are not handy tew ketch, but when ketched are skinned whole.
I hav trapt a good deal for mink and hav kaught them mity little, for they are almost az hard tew ketch in a trap and keep thare as a ray ov light iz.
Thare iz sum people who hav et mink, and sed it waz good, but i wouldn’t beleave sutch a man under oath, not bekauze he ment tew lie, but bekauze he didn’t kno what the truth waz.
I et a piece ov biled wilekat once, and that haz lasted me ever since, but i never waz parshall tew wild meat ennyhow.
I lived 25 years ov mi life whare game ov all kinds waz plenty. We had bear, oppossum, buffalo and rattlesnaik, and then nights we had draw poker and hi lo Jak, just tew waste the time a leetle.
THE DISTRIKT SKOOLMASTER.
Thare iz one man in this basement world that i alwus look upon with mixt pheelings ov pitty and respekt.
Pitty and respekt, az a genral mixtur, don’t mix well.
You will find them both traveling around amungst folks, but not growing on the same bush.