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For the long list of dead rats and mice, pocket gophers, skunks, and weasels to his credit, we think well of him, and wish his prosperity. For the song-birds, ruffed grouse, quail, other game birds, domestic poultry, squirrels, chipmunks and hares that he kills, we hate him, and would cheerfully wring his neck, wearing gauntlets. He does an unusual amount of good, and a terrible amount of harm.
"To the penitentiary, I hope, Mr. West, for breaking Her Majesty's revenue laws." All week Jessie and her foster-mother Matapi-Koma had been busy cooking and baking for the great occasion. Fergus had brought in a sack full of cottontails and two skunks. To these his father had added the smoked hindquarters of a young buffalo, half a barrel of dried fish, and fifty pounds of pemmican.
"Keep us and protect us through the night with Your grace. Ahmen! Why didn't you put those chickens out of the way of skunks and weasels, Rufus, you old scoundrel," rolled out Uncle Cradd's deep voice, dropping with great harmony from the sublime to the domestic.
Again the reverberating echoes ran up the precipices and slowly died out far above, and again no response came from the top of the cross barrier. "The lazy skunks!" growled Slade. "Off watch, huh? Keep me waiting, will they? I'll tan their dirty hides for 'em." He rode down cañon a few yards and emptied his revolver into the air, firing the shots in couples.
At the word, every one of you jump to his feet and point his rifle at the skunks and yell 'Hands UP! I reckon that will bring every hand up; but, if it don't and any of them act suspicious or make a break, shoot quick, and shoot to kill. Do you all understand?" All nodded and Mr. Conroyal returned at once to his place by the side of Ham.
Your lasso is the thing for that, Mrs. Gray. I will have Ping keep the fire going and that will keep the skunks away. The insects and other creeping things we can't stop, so we shall have to take our chances with them. Sorry, but it was necessary to tell you. If you are going to be desert travelers you must learn the desert." "You are perfectly right, Mr. Lang," nodded Grace.
This was a narrow tunnel, punched through the adobe wall near the door and boxed in with a projecting cribbing to keep out the snakes and skunks. Through it when his protectors were away he could escape the rush of pursuing coyotes, or sally forth with equal ferocity when sheep dogs were about.
He was taught the signs by which to know all his foes and then the way to baffle them. For hawks, owls, foxes, hounds, curs, minks, weasels, cats, skunks, coons, and men, each have a different plan of pursuit, and for each and all of these evils he was taught a remedy. And for knowledge of the enemy's approach he learnt to depend first on himself and his mother, and then on the bluejay.
And they were good neighbors, all of them. Even the porcupines and the skunks were interesting in their peculiar fashion and I wish there were none worse than they in the city's slums. I have said good-by to the Glimmerglass, and it may be that I shall never again make my home by its shores. But the life of the woods goes on, and will still go on as long as man will let it.
These ground-builders among the birds, taking their chances in the great common of the open fields, at the mercy of all their enemies every hour the hoofs of grazing cattle, prowling skunks, foxes, weasels, coons by night, and crows and hawks by day what bird-lover does not experience a little thrill when in his walk he comes upon one of their nests?
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