Show PRESERVED PETS A ivr york shop look like a hanl over a basement window in houston street 1 tho sign S tAL bat reta AST in the window huddled tiro 1 few alicky looking hot ties a bunch of feathers and 1 lall pinched up kind of a bird seems to hare got into a strait jacket ind stuck thereto inquire into tho interesting ss of stuffing and preferring pets a reporter descended into the mists lair he found i man as sticky looking as the bottles in tho window with a boblo expanse of brow that had long shaken off tho capillary yoke and now mi surface from tho rim of alio spectacles to the nape of tho neck there were not specimens of tho operator art on exhibition but such as were looked rather moldy and uncomfortable as though they were disconcerted at being caught in odd postures and did not know how to get out of klicin you gauff and preserve octaf inquired alio reporter tho taxidermist nodded ho did not acm to possess much vocal ability and what ho had he did not want to anso what kind of poti the looked about at tho sticky specimens anil shrugged his manifestly all creation was expressed by alic movement you havo no largo animals chii with a glanco at the ornithological exhibits 0 said alic taxidermist now becoming as fluent aa lio had been taciturn big a horses not long ago 1 helped to and mount on a platform n lionso that was a gent lemans favorite fai ho had ridden him all through the west and knows else even in death lie wanted to have the boblo creatures company and ho hm him very likely in ins bedroom or study or somewhere Is such work common no not common taxidermist but occasional it all depends on peoples fancies vow not every one cares nebout having alic skin of a dog or horse about hlin no matter how much he liked it ite too much like starting a cemetery in the house hilt sumo people do tako lucli notions lucky for meas you know some like to have their kindred buried under their very cosci la your work confined to stuffing and preparing defunct pets it is bot if it were id have up fiill work hut I 1 have the announcement no painted on my sign it helps if not for me for some ono else why it puta the notion in the heads of people who sec it it is only necessary in this world to mention a tiling as proper and people will take to it now when some folks aco atiat sign that im kept busy preserving pel ind if llroy laivo any that chance to die the idea of keeping alio part 0 them ahat admits of preservation will occur to them have many been so antl by alio sign A good many have sinchi I 1 have been hero 1 have had all aorta of curious things to turn into post mortem ornaments I 1 hear mostly from ladie tharo arc abonio old women who have had parrots and cats and the like about them for years and if harm comes to alio creatures they often think of keeping ho remains arc sportsmen who have notable game tho want to keep these pt ol 01 course and they litho favorite dog too thai they like to have dogs are quite comfort nowadays tho skins of nearly all that make any sort of a name for arc kept by their owners fanciers often h ivo notable specimen of various breeds preserved aro your air viccA often employed in behalf of other than domestic animals of court strange beasts anil bijil give alio taxidermist most of ills work the and menageries havo c lot of that kind of to give away and then there arc private people jhc the odden kind of pots not loep ago I 1 prepared and mounted a lot ol 01 a gentleman bad brought homr from south america lie was real fond of them I 1 learned I 1 have had raccoon and foils and squirrels and even mice to put in ahapa no end of birds arc stuffed nd used as ornaments and enthusiastic thusia sportsmen will bring 1 bear kin or a ducr it head miles to bo pro pared and used as a trophy of UK chase sometimes I 1 havo got an for an ornamental group and leavo had to bunt about mycle for animals to compose it hunt about town I 1 mean for I 1 am no ham to do tho reporter bookel at a bin the man was it earned a and like all else around a sticky thing it docant look handsome he hazard no uld tho a glut pot fell and spattered it the looked at all the i in their rigid uneasy postures they all had alio aado look and feeling muter he said as he went out well what Is it ihm glue pot fall in n foundry it certainly looked liko elv T arau it announced that an engleh in hn lately a method ca coating tin with a material glam which all danger it polon ia caoru d good and the tion of bis prix cm 1 likely to b come |