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A beauty spot, though their lives held nothing but treadmill toil and harsh words and a mental horizon narrowed almost to the limits of the grim, gray, rock wall that surrounded them. Another sturdy-souled couple came afterwards and saw the Wolverine and made for themselves a home upon its banks.
How such a hot-house plant as Theosophy ever took root in the swamps and sands of the Wolverine State may seem surprising at the first glance, but let the second rest upon our environment the absence of mountain or swift-flowing river, the presence of fever and ague and half-burnt pine woods and it will be seen that this Eastern lore with its embarrassment of symbols supplies a long-felt want to starving imagination.
'Oh, you mustn't mind a little pain, said the wolverine, 'it will soon be over, and then you will see all sorts of things you have never dreamt of. The bear sank down with a groan, and as her eyes were full of cranberry juice, which completely blinded her, the wolverine took up a sharp knife and stabbed her to the heart.
He did not know that it was a wolverine, standing outside, all a-trembling with its own daring, and cautiously scenting out the contents of the cave. The cub knew only that the sniff was strange, a something unclassified, therefore unknown and terrible for the unknown was one of the chief elements that went into the making of fear.
And yet, when Charlie Fox rode down to the Wolverine a week or so later, tied his horse under the shed, and came up to the cabin as though he knew of no better place in all the world; when he greeted mommie as though she were something precious in his sight, and talked with her about the things she was most interested in, and actually made her feel as if he were immensely interested also, Billy Louise simply could not help admiring him and liking him for his frank good-nature and his kindness.
Long ago long before your maw ever found you, or your paw ever found your ranch on the Wolverine, I had a little girl, 'bout like you. She was a purty child her hair was like silk, and her eyes was blue, and we was Mormons, and we lived down clost to Salt Lake. And I seen so much misery amongst the women-folks you can't understand that, but mebby you will when you grow up.
In 1793 this company enriched itself by 106,000 beaver skins, 2,100 bear skins, 1,500 fox skins, 400 kit fox, 16,000 muskrat, 32,000 martin, 1,800 mink, 6,000 lynx, 6,000 wolverine, 1,600 fisher, 100 raccoon, 1,200 dressed deer, 700 elk, 550 buffalo robes, etc. Astor was accused by a Government agent of betraying the American cause at the outbreak of this war.
Distinctions, that an acute observer may detect, do certainly exist between the eastern and the western man, between the northerner and the southerner, the Yankee and middle states' man; the Bostonian, Manhattanese and Philadelphian; the Tuckahoe and the Cracker; the Buckeye or Wolverine, and the Jersey Blue.
In all cases the trap should be covered with leaves, moss or the like, and the bait slightly scented with castoreum. Like all voracious animals, the perpetual greed of the wolverine completely overbalances its caution, and thus renders its capture an easy task. In removing the skin, it may be ripped up the belly, or taken off whole, as described for the fox.
For it is not content to merely spring a trap, but it will carry it away more often for a short distance, but sometimes for miles and hide or bury it. Later on the wolverine may visit it again, carry it still farther away and bury it once more. The wolverine has good teeth for cutting wood, and will sometimes free a trap from its clog by gnawing the pole in two.
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