we had to live & grub had to be purchased.
Now a mink is considerably larger than a Ferret, dark Brown in colour and very muscular.
I killed him (as I thought) with a stick & put him on the ice while I was fixing the shelter in order to reset the trap in it. I was on my knees with my back to the mink when suddenly some sixth or tenth sense prompted me to look around. The mink was not dead, very much alive in fact, his mouth was open and not more than a foot from my rear end. Believe me I moved in a hurry.
The pelt from that fellow brought $9.00 nine dollars being worth 1-18-00 [pounds] or more.
One catch, in two months, included beaver, Marten, mink, muskrats, Ermine and Skunk, and
