Show ti isN t 4 1 Wh i in THE GREAT OUTDOORS Stan Taggart By By men Hen Thurston used to tell thIS thle one on early prospector and nun hunt tit tir Truelove Manhart The way I 1 heard it Glen Gle n would ouM begin ol 01 Truely went u up Big ills Hollow follow behind Paul Lyons Lyons' pla place e one afternoon to bag him d a bear He lIe hiked biked up as ae far ns as a athe the knoll overlooking the DIg Big Hollow follow spring built a Q blind bUnd an anby and by Oby nightfall was waa quietly ready rudy for action When It got dark a not too not too large bear came along alona It loped down and started around In the soft loft eras graN by the spring The Tho old settler leveled his hll long tongs rifle and was WAI just about to cut loose when a bigger big ger bear bounced Into sight Ight There Thera Just a couple ot of rods rod below Truely tooth of ot em started around and a plash Inthe in inthe the tho cool springwater The Tho big hunter leveled his rau musket ket again and commenced to squeeze the trigger Then all of ot a sudden he dropped the gun sun from his shoulder and sucked In a big breath of ot air Lumbering Into view lew was the largest meanest bear the old feller teller had ev ever ever r seen Rollin down to the spring like a Sherman tank the big cuss CUIS started the two smaller ones all over the place Manhart just crouched down quiet as AI a field mouse and waited for the monster to move on Toward morning It finally left left- left and and poor scared seared stiff limbed Truelove M Man Manhart a n h hart sneaked art sneaked sneak d all the way home S ite Richville ite Keith Lowe bagged bag bags ged god three bunnies near his home Saturday Ivan Rich and Dee picked up a Il few tasty cottontails in Lost Creek Creek and and ran ran onto another local hunter the there e who h had c six e e 4 Some predictions for 60 January Government trapper Reuben Jensen of Peoa will catch the worlds world's first Abominable Snowman but but but will turn It loose with an apology mistaking it forone for tor forone toron one on of his hla huntin pals Earl Eari Bagnell will become become lost lostIn lostIn lostin In the tho vast remote reaches of but but will be saved by the tho Summit Search and Rescue Squad I February Due to a scarcity of snow enow at Squaw Valley the winter Olympics be held at Park City March A flock nock of Ot migrating Whooping Cranes will stop over over in ins which Is already well known as a sanctuary for misplaced moose and mountain sheep April An upsurge of ot mink activity will make malte it necessary for tor owners to start brands on their precious precious- pelted petted little pets May Conservation officer Guy Dronson Bronson will arrest eager angler H H. H C C. C McConaughy for fishing before the season opens open Charley Van Doren will finally find s suitable employment employment herd herdin herd herd- in tn sheep ep up Chalk Creek Creele way June The rural living trend will in become more mora evident with Rockport Reservoir 1 being drained to make room for Salt La Laken ew summer homes The North Summit Wildlife Federation will launch a fund rund campaign working toward the construction of a lane four highway high way to Blue Lake July Singer 1 t Elvis Elvia Presley Pres Press ley fey will become dissatisfied with mere echo chamber effects ef d. and and will record a II couple of rock n roll roil albums In Echo Canyon Real spectacular background back back- background ground sound August The Morgan County Sheriffs Sheriff's Jeep Patrol will make an all out once for all attempt at ate tempt to find Lost Loat Creek Creeks Dry Creek will b be even drier than usual Blaine Bill DIckson will win saddle bronc and bareback riding rid rids ing tug events at the Morgan Rodeos Rodeo September Uncle Sam will locate lorato a multi million dollar mla nils- file ale base bue at Upton October H H. H C McConaughy will catch his very first limit of trout trout trout- while trout while the tho boys at the tho Kamas Hatchery are looking the tho other way A herd ot of migrating elephants will pass pa through Coalville November A crack team will edge edit out Russian Roseau men amen In n a the Olympic game flames A bw Ingenious Vance will cross ero his hia mink with rattlesnakes and thereby eliminate eliminate ate the annual annuel pelting chore The owe sweet t little will shed hed their skins unassisted at ad aaa 4 then grow crow n now w ones OU Rut Jut their bite will wUl be bo much more lethal I Y Fe Ford bard Id I'd Dickson and his hla trotter brothel were catchin tr trout t right z a l J left n tl boat But Bast Can Ran several you Creek one ono morning 8 decades ago when a came dangling down from the tho high bank behind them Attached five-dollar five bill and anda to it were a a note which read road Why dont don't you boys boya take this five spot spot and and put that fine string of trout on my hook one at a time The Dickson kids had caught the fish with little muo effort and to them five bucks was a lot of ot money They started sending lending up fish That hat afternoon after alter landing several more fat frisky natives the boys boya were approached further furs fur ther downstream by a luckless angler He lie stared with envy a at atFord's atFord's Fords Ford's load load ot of foot toot long fish Ill give you this new bamboo pole i ole olo tor for em the tho man said nodding nod node ding toward the string ot of b beau au ties The youths didn't often see genuine bamboo rods rode In those days They couldn't pass up such auch an offer When they returned home with their days day's loot though papa Albert Dickson was quite disturb disturb- ed ert Not satisfied with Fords Ford's and Elbern's account of ot how now they came by the money and fish pole Bishop Dickson loaded his boys in u the family buggy and headed off oft up the creek By Dy and by the trio came upon a camp among the cottonwoods Two men were sitting on a log cleaning fish Bishop Dickson engaged engaged en en- them in conversation and learned earned that they were from Ogden Ogden Og- Og den up on a fishing trip Further talk revealed that the city sportsmen sports men had made a bet with one another early that morning as to which would catch the most f fish This confession gave the not ao sly so-sly sly Ogden anglers a good laugh laughon on one ono another And it solved the he mystery of the strange note the he money and the bamboo pole |