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And right then he heard something that put an end to all his fine thoughts about his own smartness, and sent little cold shivers up and down his backbone. "Hello!" said the voice of Farmer Brown's boy. "These are queer tracks! That Skunk must have had a queer tail, for here are the marks of it in the snow, and they look as if they might have been made by the tail of a very big rat."
"You damned mean deceitful skunk!" cried the boy, slamming the door behind him, and ignoring his brother's outstretched hand. "I'd like to smash every bone in your body until there wasn't a piece as big as a toothpick left of you! You made me think you didn't care a rap about her you said I wasn't worthy of her that I was an ignorant farmer and she was a great lady.
The killings now there was White and Moran, that you know about, an' a skunk over in California named Carlisle, that you don't know about, I guess. I couldn't get away from those shootings, sheriff." "How about Simpson and Manley?" countered the official scornfully. "Not on my list," said Rathburn quickly.
Even in my anxiety I almost laughed. "It sounds like an insane asylum," I thought, and reflected that probably the disturbance was only caused by some small animal. Perhaps a rabbit or a skunk which Bock had winded and wanted to chase. I patted him, and crawled into my bunk once more. But my real excitement was still to come.
Such a look of dismay as swept over the faces of all those little people, with the exception of Jimmy Skunk and Prickly Porky! "If if if you please, I don't think I'll come to-morrow morning," said Danny Meadow Mouse. "I I I think I shall be too busy at home and will have to miss that lesson," said Striped Chipmunk. Old Mother Nature smiled. "Don't worry, little folks," said she.
It was a precarious pilgrimage, but we moved gently and managed not to outrage the little animal's feelings. When the men saw us coming across the creek, with one accord they all went in and took a drink. We gingerly urged Mr. Skunk into the big cage, and with the greatest caution, never making a sudden move, I took his picture.
She'd be big enough to take care of herself and run away as soon as she heard them coming." "What would you do if a bear came at you, Uncle Andy?" inquired the Babe. "Run," said Uncle Andy promptly, "unless I had a gun!" The Babe thought deeply for a moment. "And what would you do if a little, teeny, black-and-white striped skunk came at you?" he asked.
Here were found Indians Sacs and Foxes, Pottawattomies, and Winnebagoes but they were not hostile and their presence caused no objection. It was at Iowa City that Major Woods heard that the inhabitants on the Iowa, English, and Skunk Rivers had been making the loudest complaints. Accordingly he started up the Iowa River to the vicinity of Marengo.
"Yes, yes well oh, that wasn't anything," said Standifer, "hemming" loudly and buttoning his coat again, briskly. "And now, ma'am, who was the infernal skunk I beg your pardon, ma'am who was the gentleman you married?" "Benton Sharp." The commissioner plumped down again into his chair, with a groan.
Having no water-shed of its own, the Charles is not subject to those floods and frenzies which make so many other streams dangerous. Sedges and flags, the skunk cabbage and marsh marigold, grape vines, alders, willows and button bush abound along its shores. White and yellow lilies and the pickerel weed almost choke its course in many places.
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