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Right fancy they was, with smallish heels! That skunk'll kill ye in the dark, Will. Ye'd orto hev put out'n both his two eyes!" A sudden sound made them all turn. Came crackling of down brush, the scream of a woman's voice. At the side of the great tree stood a figure that had no right there. They turned mute.
A skunk'll trot off and mind his own business if you leave him alone, and, anyhow, he'll put up his tail for a danger signal so you know what's comin' if you hang around." "Well, then," said the boy, "call him a snake, a rattlesnake." "And that's not quite hittin' the mark, either. A rattlesnake rattles before he strikes.
"After the buck gets close in, he gives an almighty jump up in the air, and down comes his four hoofs in a bunch right on top of Mr. Snake. Cuts him all to hash. Now you tell me how the buck knows that." Of course I could not tell him. And again we sat in silence for a while friendlier silence, I thought. "A skunk'll kill yu' worse than a snake bite," said another, presently.
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