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Updated: May 12, 2025
Plunging into the dense brake of reeds, through which he glided like a polecat, Dick led them over ground whereon, save in times of hard frost, no man could tread, heading toward the river bank.
Certainly you could say that he was still there, but you could not swear that you actually saw him. The first that the polecat knew of him was that red-hot fork-like feeling that means fangs in the back of your neck.
The polecat was kicked in the stomach, and kicked and scratched in the ribs, and thumped on the nose, and kicked and scratched and thumped on the head, before he could get in the death-stroke, the terrible lightning-thrust at the brain's base, which, like the sword-stroke that ends the bull-fight, dropped the victim as if struck by electricity.
During the last night our people passed on land, they killed a polecat which had slunk into the tent. This animal, of the size and form of an ordinary cat, has so abominable a smell, that its vicinity is insupportable.
Among the Mammalia were five squirrels,and two tigercats the Gymnurus Rafesii, which looks like a cross between a pig and a polecat, and the Cynogale Bennetti a rare, otter-like animal, with very broad muzzle clothed with long bristles.
You, Beneficent Polecat you, Devourer of Mountains you, Roaring Thundergust you, Bully Boy with a Glass eye the paleface from beyond the great waters greets you all! War and pestilence have thinned your ranks and destroyed your once proud nation. Poker and seven-up, and a vain modern expense for soap, unknown to your glorious ancestors, have depleted your purses.
The landlord explained to him who Baron Hody was. When I had occasion to ask the same question as Cournet, I received from three inhabitants of Brussels the three answers as follows: "He is a dog." "He is a polecat." "He is a hyena." There is probably some exaggeration in these three answers. A fourth Belgian whom I need not specify confined himself to saying to me, "He is a beast."
A species of the polecat, and another of the fox, are destructive to the Indian's poultry, while the opossum, the guana and salempenta afford him a delicious morsel.
Not at men, especial," he grinned, "but you'll run across things a wolf, mebbe, that'll get fresh with you, or a sneakin' coyote that'll kind of make the hair raise on the back of your neck, not because you're scared of him, but because you know his mean tricks an' don't admire them, or a wildcat, or a hydrophobia polecat, ma'am," he said, with slightly reddening cheeks; "but mostly, ma'am, I reckon you'll like shootin' at side-winders best.
"But why are you so careful about his health, Uncle Jim?" asked the bewildered Steve. "Because our guest happens to be a striped skunk!" was the appalling answer he received. "A polecat!" gasped Steve. "Thunder! What a nice mess we're in." "That's just what," echoed Bandy-legs. "It's half an hour now since Uncle Jim sighted the striped beast through the window.
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