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Show NO DROUTH IN YELLOWSTONE i YELLOWSTOXE PARK, Wyo. August 20 Peculiar actions of fish in the Gardiner river of late, huve caused Yellowstone National Park visitors to wonder what it's all about and rangers have come forth with an explanation. And this is their story ; moreover, they stick to it. Park guests report that fish have been see nleaping out of the water, wa-ter, grabbing at any sort of bait and in short, going through almosl every antic except climbing trees. The reason. They're inebriated, some of the rangers say. Recently about 20 gallons of moonshine of a very poor quality the kind that would take hair off a camel's back was poured into a stream which finally finds its way into the Gardiner river at the junction of the Boiling river. Result. The fish just naturally got "soused." The liquor was a portion of several cargoes confiscated con-fiscated by rangers who grabbed four persons in less than a week. The fish weren't the only victims, vic-tims, its said, but the authenticity authen-ticity of this report is not verified veri-fied except by the man who tells it. Now it is known that, ranger-naturalists ranger-naturalists are "up" on their animal languages, and so there's no reason to doubt they can savvy sav-vy a rabbit. "Yes, that was terrible booze," asserted one of these gentlemen. "I gave a little bit of it to a cotton-tail rabbit and would you believe be-lieve it, no sooner had he swallowed swallow-ed the stuff, than he shouted in his 'rabbit-like' way, 'Whoopee. Bring on your grizzly bear." And the ranger who told the story is a total abstainer. |