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Show MINK AND WEASEL TAMED BY RANGER Skunk, Too, Friendly but Not Overwelcomed. Glacier PurU, .Mont. United States Fore.-:t Ranker Lewis Ihmson of the Two Medicine valley in Glacier National Na-tional park fed Ihipjacks all winter to a mink, a weasel, a skunk and two gray squirrels. The mink, weasel and the squirrels ot so tame they ate out of his hand, but he left the skunk to wait on Itself "cafeteria fashion." Veteran trooper's of the ltocky Mountains Moun-tains say this is the first time they ever hoard of a mlnli or a weasel get-tlnpr get-tlnpr tame enough to eat out of a nian'a hand. The incident came to olllcial notice when Ranker Hanson kept reporting a shortage In flour rations. The chief ranger, when be discovered what Itung-r Itung-r llunson was doing with the (lour, was first inclined to reprimand the subordinate, but on looking over the rules and regulations, be changed his mind and allowed the extra supply. In Uncle Sam's manuirl, forest rangers rang-ers are Instructed to be kind to animals. ani-mals. Ranger Hanson's amiability has extended ex-tended to more species than any other has yet made pets of In the wilds of the Rockies. "Of course, In the tourist season, It's different, but during the lonely months of the long winter a fellow has a friendly feeling for anything with life In it,'.' Ranger Hanson volunteered. volun-teered. "These nnlmals evidently felt the same way about It, for they kept hnnglng around my cabin door all winter, win-ter, and I sure couldn't regard 'em as anything but companions of the wilds. "But that darned skunk ! I just couldn't bring myself to fondle him, although the poor devil almost wagged his tall as friendly as a dog when he approached me begging for the flapjacks flap-jacks which he had seen me feed to the other nnlmnls. I had to laugh at myself at times, when I was almost convinced that he was sincerely friendly in the wagging of that tall. "Once I was on the verge of giving him the hand offering just to show that I had no partiality for the other animals. I guess If I bad bad two suits of clothes I might have done It." |