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It's no laughing matter. It's a disgrace to human natur' that's what it is. I would despise being seen in the same room with one of those men. Yes, sir! He seemed to catch my eye like, and I had to speak out of civility. 'Skunks! says I, 'of course, Captain O'Brien, and I wouldn't care to have them here myself, so you're quite safe in this room, Captain O'Brien.
The smouldering in the bunker had weakened resistance there and her necrosed ribs had given away. The Red Un, scurrying through the tunnel, was met by a maddened rush of trimmers and stokers. He went down under them and came up bruised, bleeding, battling for place. "You skunks!" he blubbered. "You crazy cowards! Come back and help!" A big stoker stopped and caught the boy's arm.
And you die of hydrophobia. Ask anybody." "Most extraordinary!" said I. "But did you ever see a person die from this?" "No, sir. Never happened to. My cousin at Bald Knob did." "Died?" "No, sir. Saw a man." "But how do you know they're not sick skunks?" "No, sir! They're well skunks. Well as anything. You'll not meet skunks in any state of the Union more robust than them in Arkansaw. And thick."
If any one of you was dying I'd spit in his mouth, and not pity him a bit. Mean skunks! You wheedle and wheedle, you wag your tails like cringing dogs, and we fools give ourselves up to you, and it's all up with us! Immediately you trample us underfoot... Miserable loafers'"
Now I ain't one of them mean skunks that wants his folks to wait till he's dead afore they enjoys themselves; and the day my Ann 'Liza is married, I plank down a million in hard cash for her and her husband to do what they darned please with; cut a dash in Europe as Hal is doin', if they like, or cut a splurge to hum, it's all one to me. I call that square, don't you?
Down with the aristocrats as wants to make war at the expense of the working man! What's England coming to? tell me that! You've no principles, you haven't, you Tory skunks; you've not half a principle among you. I'm a man of principle, I am, and I vote for national morality, I do! You're running away, are you? Ya-oo-oo! stop and fight it out, if you're a man! Down with 'em, boys! Down with 'em!
Babbitt, although a trifle paler than when he entered the shop, was not more yielding. "I'm particular who I set down along of," he declared. "I'd as soon set down with a a rattlesnake as I would with some humans." Captain Sam was not pale, far from it. "Skunks are always afraid of snakes, they tell me," he observed, tartly. "A rattlesnake's honest, anyhow, and he ain't afraid to bite.
That cats destroy annually in the United States several millions of very valuable birds, seems fairly beyond question. I believe that in settled regions they are worse than weasels, foxes, skunks and mink combined; because there are about one hundred times as many of them, and those that hunt are not afraid to hunt in the daytime.
They always nested at a distance from the house, and it was almost impossible ever to find their eggs, on account of the extreme circumspection they observed in going to and from their nests; and when they succeeded in escaping foxes, skunks, weasels, and opossums, which, strange to say, they often did, they would rear their chickens away out of sight and hearing of the house, and only bring them home when winter deprived them of their leafy covering and made food scarce.
"You're very kind to me, and Dudley," she said quietly, and slipped out of the wagon before I could lift her down. A sudden voice kept me from jumping after her. "By golly," said Billy Jones, sniffing at my fore wheel. "Have you run over a hundred skunks?" I told Billy Jones as much as I thought fit of the evening's work, which included no mention of wolf dope, or shooting on the corduroy road.
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