Show ea am PHILLY loo BIRD FROM LIFE jt THE FROM ws 0 R t V drawings by ray walters in A A THEFT WE TOTE arE ROAD M C 4 theres a lot of things you never learn at school thor theres e a a lot of 0 things never taught by rule T theres h e re f s s an n awful lot of knowledge the that you never set get at ollege college theres a lot of things you never learn at school old SOUK song author unknown by ELMO SCOTT WATSON N THE grade schools the children 1 anre taking akong nature study in high school okho 1 ol 01 they learn zoology and botany in college they broaden their knowledge of all living things b by y studying biology bioly hut but there Is one branch of science which the textbook writ writers ra and a ad th the e teachers have neglected it Is tile somewhat less ian exact science of unnatural aural history the best exemplification of tile the sentiment ei expressed pressed in the old song quoted above for unnatural history Is one of the things you yon never learn at school to become acquainted alth its fascinating facts you must go not to books butto butta the source of all true knowledge to people and there Is one class of men who are better fitted than any other to give these facts they are the simple men who lived close to the soll soil and whose brief snatches of leisure between long hours of hard work were usually given over to spIn spinning yarns for the amusement of themselves and their fellows in telling their tall tales they invented mythical characters of heroic proportions who performed prodigious feats and whose every activity was carried out on avast a vast scale such were the uld old time lumberjack and the ille old time cowboy who have given to us braul aul bunyan tile super lumberjack and pecos bill the super cowboy choin the students of folklore characterize na as ibbe he best and almost only examples of native american myth heroes more afore than that in telling of tile the deeds of these legendary heroes these saga eaga peopled their world with strange creatures bizarre in appearance and tan fan ta in habits not only aid did they invent their yarns tor for their own plop pleasure sure but they often repeated and em brol dered tham for or the express purpose of stuffing the tenderfoot or hazing the pilgrim so go if you would learn the most interesting facts in unnatural to a lumberjack or a cowboy and by your unsophisticated manner and naive questions give him a chance to tell you about some of the strange creatures which he has seen in the course of ills his career if its if a lumberjack youre talking to the chances are that one of the first animals he will tell you about la Is the hodac although the bodag Is n now ow extinct the one specimen having been captured near rhinelander nhi wis years ago all lum ber jacks know about the bodag and how it camp into being once upon a time there was an ox which had led an unusually hard life at the hands of ills his various drivers up in the north woods of wisconsin among lumberjacks lumber jacks it Is believed that the tilde hide of an ox Is invulnerable to everything but the profanity of its drivers when the animal dies its customary burial ceremony Is cremation and it requires seven years of continuous ore ire to reduce to ashes all the profanity which has accumulated in its body during its lifetime so when this particular ox died a brush ore fire was built around its body and kept going for seven years to obliterate nil all the curses which had been heaped upon if in english french irish scandinavian and german while it had tolled in tile the lumber camps at the end of tile the seventh year the ore lire was allowed to die down but instead of there being left no trace of the hie ox out of the heip of ashes there rose phoenix nice a fearsome creature such as Is pictured above which exhaled an obnoxious odor and the swish of whose tall made theearta the earth tremble F for r some time tills this monster preyed upon the lumber amz r camps its favorite food od being beet beef on the hoof then according to lake shore kearney of wausau wis an old time lumberjack who has written a book on the bodag IS B shepard THE INK tra p pec by Wa lEers in brits 1 0 of rhinelander WIs another old timer in the north woods succeeded in capturing it by digging a hidden pit in a trail watch the boring known to frequent and luring the hodak to lity it by having a young man of marathon fame and a noted ski jumper bumpei lead an ox along this trail with the bodag in hot pursuit after its capture the boring wa was s put to death skinned and mounted for years it was exhibited in an all old barn near rhinelander and thousands of people journeyed there to view it until the barn burned down and all traces of this creature vanished fram tofiq the earth but atit if you yon go to rhinelander today they will sell you pl picture post cards of the liodas as proof of the fact that it did once exist cut but even though the hod agla extinct there are other equally interesting creatures still in the north woods your lumberjack friend will tell you yon some of whom make it exceedingly dangerous for a tenderfoot to stray tar far from the lumber camp by himself of course you may not see them but that prove that they are not there if you find in tile the woods wooda a d set of tracks that puzzle you they were probably left there by the tote road maw its hind legs havethe have the hoots hoofs of a moose and its forelegs fore legs the paws of a bear when li ii Is of traveling on one tiet net of legs it contil continues lues on its way on the other which accounts tor for the peculiar trail which Is so baffling to hunters the tote rond road Bhaga maw Is shy and harmless but look out for the agro and the gumb gumbe croo roo I 1 the agro has a long body and arms like n p spider monkey it lias has it perpetual grudge against again cl t mankind and aind it hides in hollow trees out of will which h it springs spring 9 tears oft off a huge branch of n oi tree and cracks the skull of the luckless tenderfoot as he passes by the gumbe roo lives in burned over forests and Is therefore easily avoided it la Is larger than a bear and linsa has a round leathery body which nothing van can pierce if a hunter ores nt at it the bullet rebounds from froin its tough hide strikes the marksman and usually ay iy kills hills him tile the only thing that can kill it Is ore ond and often during for orest tires ores the lumb lumberjacks lumber edne jacks hear loud which are gumbe roos blowing up in the flames In nies all of the foregoing animals are known to lum ber berj jacks achs of the north woods frota from maine to minnesota tin when the lumber industry expand err 41 west the lumbermen discovered runny many other oilier 1 interi ting cren creatures tures which are arc known both to them and to the cowboys the scene of whose activities bor dered on theirs for instance there Is the rope rite which Is ns as large as a n small pony aud has a long 1 ropelike rope ope like benk beak with n slip noose on the end with this natural lariat barint the catches even the swiftest jack jackrabbit rabbit and sometimes ropes a tenderfoot then there Is the trip odero with two telescopic legs its beak li Is like the muzzle of a gun with a sight on the end loang through tile the brush it raises and lowers itself to look tor for croue anti and upon seeing some tilts itself to the right angle sights along its beak and then lets fly alth with a pellet of mayo a quantity of these auids being always carried in the left cheek the tripo dero hue hita never been known own to miss a shot and as aa a result the mortality among tenderfeet tender feet in some parts of the west la Is sold to be appalling although lumberjacks lumber jacks and cowboys been the principal contributors to the origins of unnatural history too much credit cannot be given to editors and especially editors of country papers for their part in preserving it tor for future generations of americans who are unlikely to learn leam it at school it Is to a number oi of them that the author of this article Is indebted tor for information about two creatures without a description crip tion of which no unnatural history notebook would be complete one Is the gilly gally loo or philly loo bird nod abd from descriptions furnished by it II B r fuller of the rhame bhame N D review lurry larry flint of the shanron PR pa herald uncle jimmy ot of the Harlow town wont mont times ben bee E H manning odthe riddle ore south umpqua news W at haft fluff of the claflin kan K an clarion and L 0 Jo johnson linson of livingston mont a fairly accurate idea of the appearance and habits of thu the phally loo can be written as as follows the philly loo Is a comic supplement of the ancient Is related to the wild cold shuts and fuzzy billed sidewinders side winders and in some borne respects resembles the gaIll wampus it has a beak like a stork one arm to guide itself and a long lizard tall which it usually carries in the shape chape of a Q and which leaves a track like a modern modem nonskid tire it Is covered with horse feathers and from it Is obtained not only horse feathers but colt slaw its most distinguishing characteristic la is that it hies flies upside down and if it were not for this fact more would be known about it IL for when the hunter shoots the phally loo it falls alls up instead of down tind and therefore but few specimens have been collected the reason for its flying upside down Is that it can thus absorb more violet rays ras from the blue sky and stave off rheumatism the other interesting animal Is the editha I 1 L watson of the colorado graphic den ver the daughter of an old time country newspaper man has written the following lop of this creature the la Is about the size of a whito white tall deer dearbas baa ears like a rabbit and teeth beath like a mountain lion its ita coat la Is brindle adrid its eyesore eyes eye sare are red it has haa a long ions and prehensile tall which it wraps around rocks when it turns around for a little extra I 1 laver overage atre it has telescopic legs lees which arrangement enables it to graze around the sides of mountains the two right or left legs as the case may be telescoping to about halt half the length of the othor two for thin reason it ran eat either to the right or the he lett left but has some in ill turning around as it appears that tho two hind legs or the two front ones will not telescope tel escove at the same time ime t only one side at a time having this power hence the long ong tall which it wraps around the otten often pulling them out 0 of the ground with the labor of its ite exertions in turning around the eats the tan and green ereen lichens which will tha c I 1 dhere adhere a closely to 0 to rocky kas on n hills and in antho the proc process wears little trails around the mountainsides which many people have hava noticed when disturbed this animal digs alga a hole in the ground very rapidly disappearing almost immediately so BO that sight of one Is very rare the holes are often mistaken for prospect holes but the seeker for ore would be amazed to find a a upon farther digging the gras eutus to Is seen been only after a snakebite snake bite and the subsequent treatment by the observer this causes one to wonder if this animal and th the C snake are ara not in some mome way arillia ted this Is I 1 L subject which will bear investigation while tare rare ate are not extinct but have hav been run into the ground 0 so o often that they are at almost unknown editors not only have done a good work in the interests Inte of unnatural history by preserving the accumulated data on many of these interesting animals hut but they have also contributed to the science of their observations on some of th the fauna abich are found only around print shops go bo to any print shop and if you will ask the editor will be glad to show allow you some type bee alc then there Is the type lout which Is an apprentice type louse whose job it Is around the print shop to eat nil all punctuation marks mark which are incorrectly placed and to correct typographical errors A lout being an awkward fellow the type lout sometimes makes mistakes himself and that Is why you sometimes find your name misspelled in the newspaper another interesting animal Is the it ans just by cli chonce tince that one of these appeared while artist walters was muk ma ing the sketches for tills this article and he was able to draw the picture of this interesting little fel low the first time in history that I 1 its ita portrait has ever been winde tile the studio Is the reason why the luk fak bottles nud ink wells on the desire desk of cartoonists and editors are always dry the studio eats nathl nothing 69 and drinks drink only ink |