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My dear Mcleod:
Mas very glad to hear frrm you and to see that Ihe Khilk'-ot Post is on its
feet again. As for anything for publication, I don’t know of anythint except mabe
one.I heard on Corporal Ted Grant the other day. You know Grant was in the Cavalry
a while * Somebody asked him hhy he came int*' the Infantry, ”'7e.ll. ” he said, ” They
didn’t- treat me right in the Cavalry. They gave me Hell for putting the suddl e
the horse backwards. How the Hell did I know which way the Army was g-ing to march?
how that I am safely away from where they can do me bodil y harm .1 nan v.e'A
these t'nings on my friends. For instance there’s that one ”ol* Hop", our excellent
wagonmaster. You know that spavined, wind broken, sway-backed team of mules or,p
Carnes oUt for parties that want to go fishin’ or huntin’? Well, Hop dro-e ' cr k hr '
se lf rne day last Sring up to \7ells. He took his' time ab'-ut i*c-^2«~ with. that 'Ce.
he’d have to; but when he got there the mules were all in* San ’hittaker came oui
his log pallacc and 1 '^ked at ’em,
"Pretty g'-'d team you’ve got!” said Sain ironically.
"7ell they serve my purpose," said Hop.
Now one mule was leanin’ forward against the collar, about a yard in front
of the other, which was sagging back agr.inst the brerchin’ •
’’Seems 34ke one’s faster than the other,” said Sam.
”’7ell, I dorft know," said Hon. ’’Idrove ’em all the way from the Barracks an’
that’s all he’s gained",
I mustH’t le*ve out the little yarn about the Rev. -'r. 3rAwlev. It seems
when i’r. Bromley first came t~ Alaska, an ol^ sourdough sick. His two pardners
did everything they could the old ftllowf and finally decided they’d have t^ get
a doctor. One of * <*m mushed in t* the tillage and got a medic'' who went back with
him t' the cabin. The d'« trie'" everything - poultices, plasters, pills, the whole
~r o nhysici^ns st-ok in trade. Hoards midnight he turned the pareners and said,
"It s use. HeBs g-'-in’ to die. I’ve n't thor patients that need me, sa I'll
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m~n rolled wer t~w?.rJ Mm and ashed in a weak v.-ice,
t~ d.o?" "^en unce the Devil1. Ren unce the
Bromley. The sick nan I'hzod at him d lefully
ser I ain’t in no p'siti n t' make enemies’."
'c *lc cue me f >r libel, I depend on the legal
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Tr ? nv ir' tie- r T*' uv e - n m e d '
skill of you and Lt. Grady to defend,
i/ith best wishes to you'and the ”E Company Association for the Mew Year,
I remain,
Yours very truly
P. C. MRIGu~.
ALASKAN SALMON.
There are five species of aalnon in Alaskan waters, the konp, valuable because of its
size, for it is often four feet lone and attains a weight of thirty pounds and more:
The red or sockeye, liked because of it’s color; the humoback or nink, a trifle paler
in color thah the red; the silver, which is smaller than the other varieties, and the
dog or chum salmon, unfortunately apreeudice exists againsts the dog salmon because t
natives feed it to their dogs and it is thought by many not to be an eatable fish*
Its color too, is against it. But it is a p&latable food fish, and now that it’s name
commercially has been changed to gray fish, the prejudice may die away*——
— A gnes ^ush Burr in "Alaska Our Beautiful Northland of
Opportunity."