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As they walked, Cotton expressed his opinion of him, that he was a skunk, a puppy, a person of undesirable ancestry; and when Hal endeavoured to ask a question which he did quite genuinely, not grasping at once the meaning of what was happening the marshal bade him "shut his face," and emphasised the command by a twist at his coat-collar.
"Measly skunk!" he panted; "a-campin' on my trail an' lettin' me do the work, an' then shootin' me in the back!" He was half crying from anger and exhaustion. He peered at the face of the dead man. It was sprinkled with loose dirt and gravel, and it was difficult to distinguish the features. "Never laid eyes on him before," the miner concluded his scrutiny.
I looked it up in the magazine that told about his helping to back the Zariba Dam project." "That's another leg noosed on the second throw," said Gowan. "Another try or two, and we'll have the skunk ready for hog-tying." "How's that?" exclaimed the cowman. "You've got something up your sleeve." "No, it's that striped skunk that's doing the crooked playing," snapped Gowan.
"Then," said Joe, a little pale, "it must have been taken during the night." "Who would take it?" "Let us find Hogan," said Joe, with instinctive suspicion. "Who has seen Hogan?" Hogan's claim was in sight, but he was not at work. Neither was he taking breakfast. "I'll bet the skunk has grabbed the nugget and cleared out," exclaimed Bickford, in a tone of conviction.
She came out West first to teach school, and then she got mixed up with some skunk of a man who pretended to marry her when he had a wife living in Chicago, and after that I guess she went on taking a dope just to keep up her spirits and ease the pain of some spinal trouble she'd had since she was a child.
I would to God that they could be told to every coward of a shirker at home, to every skunk of a "conscientious objector," to every rat of a "stop-the-war" "pacificist." They would stir to boiling indignation the dregs of their manhood if they have any dregs. They would make them sick even them; and I should like them all to be sick sick unto death.
We was told it was a stabbing, but I've cast my eyes over the body, an' I seem to see a different story. Judging by what I found, I'd say Will Henderson was hit a smashin' blow by something heavy, which must sure 'a' knocked him senseless, an' then the lousy skunk did the rest of his work with a knife.
The female has a nest in one part, made of grass and leaves, where she brings forth her young having from five to nine kittens at a birth. "`Strange as it may appear, the Indians, as well as many white men hunters and others eat the flesh of this animal, and pronounce it both savoury and agreeable equal, as they allege, to the finest roast pig. So much for the skunk and his habits.
That's a joke, Jenny Wren. Resting! Why, you couldn't sit still and rest if you tried!" "I could so! I'm resting right now, so there, Jimmy Skunk!" protested Jenny Wren in a very indignant tone of voice, and hopped all over the little bush while she was speaking. "I guess if you knew what I know, you'd be excited too."
"Guess you're right, Hugh," admitted the other; "and there, he's crawling over the sill now, as sure as anything. Oh! the skunk, what can he be up to?" "We'll try and find out," said Hugh, with his usual promptness. "Now he's gone further from the window let's be moving along. That plank ought to make it easy sledding for fellows like us."
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