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foeHt-,of. anofYARNS OF THE BIG WO0P$By ART CHILDSTHE BOAT HOUND(Up i» the great loneeoipe woods at the North tfoe oM guides hve Invented many yarns to explain to tfoe t^nderfeet fro.m tbe cities the strangetracks, tfoe weird noises, and all the other new experiences of the great outdoors. Mr, Cfoilds w§ formerly a game warden In the Wodfls of Northern Wisconsin. The stories which he tells here pre stories he collected from the ofoi guides themselves. Twelve will be published. The ope below is the eighth.)4 rHey’” called Snowshoe Bill, the Big Woods guide, one morning. ‘Theboat is gone. Did one of you fellows go fishing last night and forget to tie it up?”The tenderfoot flushed. He was al ways doing something wrong, i “I’m the one that had it last,” ha confessed, “and I forgot to tie it. What do you suppose has happened1' to it?”“Well/*, speculated the guide, Tny private opinion is that the boat bound got it“The boat fooujidl Never heard of sucfo a thing!”“Didn’t, huh? Well, he’s about the meanest customer I've ever run into. He sneaks along in the dark looking for boats that .’areless folks forget to tie, and when ho finds one he swallows it right down. He bus a great Icng body shaped like a boat with big, froglike feet, and four ears. With the front two be%an hear everything in front of him, and with the back two be bears everything behind him.lt; ■ '■ f^1He bps a foig mouth-. Hfce an alligator's.”w“Where does this queer creature keep himself during the day?” the tenderfoot inquired, with a little grin.“He sleeps on the bottom of the lake m the daytime, but at night he's wide awake, all right, looking for boats. Just you remember about him next time you take a boat out, youngIman.»*Picture1!»\few a word square jrotntte words pictured 't*tilt;titiAnssrer to yesterday's: fountain pen, pencil tablet.Erasers,
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Frederick, Maryland, US
Wed, Sep 06, 1922
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