Show A MINK TRAGEDY the mysterious close of tile lie ifa of a cruel animal for a 6 couple of months I 1 have been trying to solve the kroblen leri of a dead mink T r found lying in my barn 0 on my Y return horae home the mink had been im dead but bul 1 a short time and had no wounds upon apon it except at tha iha throat where two small holes had let out its life blood itow it cams came to this end has troubled me ever since says a correspondent re of po forest r est and stream there were no cats in the barn and the rats 1 I had left it as well during my absence from home homb I 1 at length concluded that two male min moult lui must have had hada a quarrel in the barn and one had become a victim of the fight the barn is close to th the dam of one oi of my ponds and had been frequented by y minks in pursuit of the chickens which sometimes took up a nights lodging in it but as they were removed to other oilier quarters the minks must have had the building all to themselves I 1 skinned the body which c could not have been dead many hours and the marks in the throat showed that only one firm and aad deadly grip had ahil been taken it is interest interesting inZ to ino rv that these cruel beasts have no b bowels 4 1 mn compassion dassion even for pach other |