| Show FOUGHT UNDER WATER A mink drowned walla killing a estt la an adirondack bool the muddled water of a hal frozin cove docu on the flats told that something unusual had happened not long before reainer yet was the tale when furred body rose sur anco of the little open apace of water under the fringe of nearly frozen ice a dark apoi showed plainly to s wood mans eye that a fight had occurred in alic water and a closer inspection it had been a fight for food and a fight for life A hungry minic bad come way along a string of coves looking for something to cat the mice were eliy and lie could not catch them of fish there were none but a lone inus krat diving for roots and after a mi ute bo aidi offered a prey at once a fighte cand of goodly taste A mink likes to kill a fighter he will go a long way from brooks upon hill and eron mountain tops looking for one woodsman woodsmen woods men say lie tackles martens or weasels and is especially fond of a big muskrat the mink crouched on the edge of the ice a moment then as the muskrat rose he sprang for his prey the muskrat quickly threw up his head and caugh the mink by a paw the mink got hold of the muskrats neck a skin hold only they rolled and kicked the water high in the air throwing it ten feet away into the snow the mink could have killed the muskrat had they been in the snow or on the ground but in the water the muskrat was too powerful at last they dived and above them the water boiled and grew yellow with mud under water the mink was as badly off as at the surface at last the minks breath aavo out and blotting go he tried to rise but the muskrat would not release his hold on the minks leg so at last the mink after much struggling died but bis hold on the muskrats throat though at first only a skin hold had later been forced back and the big vein biad been cut the mink rose to the surface and the muskrat tried to swim away but died and rose as the other had done |
