The skunk has no gratitude in his make-up, then, that's all I can say.
A skunk would not sell for as much under its own name as some high sounding one; for you know there is always an unpleasant association connected with the skunk.
The mean skunk grabbed that can and fetched it over here to spray the wall of the shed with oil and making the fire jump.
And to think of the skunk saying Frank pushed him in!
But we don't have sich great men here, and I am as good a man as you any day, skunk though I be.
When Robinson called him a skunk he felt in his pocket for the knife, and put his thumb on the spring at the back of the buckhorn handle, playing with it gently.
Why there ain't a more miserable little skunk within twenty miles round Joliet.
Jimmy Skunk scratched his head as if thinking very hard.
Then Jimmy Skunk told all about the strange voice and the strange footprints.
Just then it came again, a sound such as neither Peter Rabbit nor Jimmy Skunk had ever heard before.
JIMMY SKUNK GOES WITH REDDY FOX |JIMMY SKUNK and Reddy Fox trotted along down the Crooked Little Path to the Green Meadows.
Then he heard Jimmy Skunk laughing and knew that Jimmy had played a joke on him.
But as soon as Peter was sure that Jimmy Skunk could no longer see him, he began to hurry, and the nearer he got to the Old Briar-patch, the faster he hurried.
The thought popped right into his head when Jimmy Skunk told him that the half-eaten chicken had been left on the Green Meadows by some one with teeth and feet very like Reddy's own but bigger.
All the night long he and Jimmy Skunk had sat on the doorstep listening to a strange voice, a terrible voice Peter had thought.
So he bade Jimmy Skunk good-by, and started for his home in the dear Old Briar-patch.
I haven't seen stime o' the critter since he war tuk away from us by that head man o' the sarvents, and I don't wish ever to set eyes on the skunk again.
The Skunk has other means of protection, and he is labelled dangerous or objectionable, just as our one poisonous Spider is plainly labelled dangerous by means of a red stripe.
The Skunk also has this white patch on the hind quarters, but here a different explanation is required, for the Skunk does not trouble to run away when a possible enemy appears.
Wherever he went, he wore his blanket coat, his feather in his hat, his leggings and moccasins, and the skunkskin on his arm.
Perhaps you weren't aware that in spite of all the elegant names you've spoken of, he's nothing but a Skunk Blackbird after all!
I'd rather be called a Skunk Blackbird than a Skunk Crow, any day!
They slept with all the doors and windows open, an' one night a skunk came in an' got under the bed.
I remember, I believe, right before we arrived on this first occasion, Lee had found a skunk out there.
He didn't know what a skunk was, but he found out.
He's not content with bein' a skunk himself; he wants to drag everybody else down to his level.
Maybe, now that French was dead, that old skunk Braden was going to pretend that he never sold her father the place at all.
Now I'm free to say that for a low-down skunk this here Blake French is some pumpkins.
A skunk like that would have a lot of stuff he wouldn't want people to know about.
I 've sort of palled with Dave, an' I know th' skunk like a ABC book.
If Jimmy Skunkwas right, why Peter Rabbit's queer story wasn't to be believed at all.
He didn't see Jimmy Skunk poking his head out from behind an old stump and laughing fit to kill himself.
Now the reason Jimmy Skunk is afraid of nobody is because he carries with him a little bag of very strong perfume which makes everybody sick but himself.
Jimmy Skunk had been sent to call on Prickly Porky and ask him if he had seen any strange creature such as Peter Rabbit had told about.
Jimmy Skunk and Unc' Billy had been friends from the time that Unc' Billy came up from ol' Virginny to live in the Green Forest.
Peter tried to insist on going home, but the others wouldn't hear of it, and Jimmy Skunk settled the matter by starting for the dear Old Briar-patch.
Sammy Jay happened along just as Jimmy Skunkwas starting out to look for him, and when he was told what was wanted of him, he agreed to do his part.
I have never met a skunkat night that did not demand (and receive) the whole path, even when that path was the State highway.
Try to stare the Great Stone Face out of countenance if you wish, but when a skunk begins to sidle toward you, do not try to stare him out of the path; just sidle in the direction he sidles, and sidle as fast as you can.
I did, of course, though I never expected a skunk to take up his stand on my kitchen steps and compel me to despatch him.
Do you want to know how to shoot a skunk on your kitchen steps and never know it twenty-four hours after?
He is not so cunning nor so swift as the fox, but the skunk is no stupid.
The skunk is the only animal left in the East that you will not parley with.
It's curious how a skunk can make a smell, but never have any; and it's curious how it all returns to him when he dies.
The matter of eating one's husband or wife, one's father or mother, has never struck the skunk as out of the ordinary.
I believe that a three-weeks-old skunk could hold his own against the world.
My host, in a single night, had fourteen hens killed by a skunk that dug under the coop and deliberately bit them through the neck.
The skunkhas a good and safe side to him, when we know how to approach him.
Yet, like every other predatory creature, the skunk more than balances his debt for corn and chickens by his credit for the destruction of obnoxious vermin.
But to punish him don't turn yourself into the same kind of a skunk he is.
He said we could get the smell out of our clothes by burying them, and then he went on to tell how he shot a skunk once, and spoiled a suit of clothes.
The badger, as nature made him, is a noble bird, and though he resembles a skunk too much to be very proud of, they had no right to cut off his tail and stick it up like a sore thumb.
As he did so, Skunk got away rather prematurely, coming down with the speed of a snow-slide off a roof.
The white-striped Skunk pattered with quick, mincing little steps into the group, his back humped up and his terrible tail carried high, ready to resent any insult.
Skunk had never travelled in this shape before, and was nervous.
It's like Skunk complaining of a bad odour when you're about.
Other Foes--While the armed skunk travels about without fear of man or beast, it must be remembered that the disarmed young skunks may be killed by dogs, or taken by horned owls or any other large bird.
It costs from twenty-five cents to a dollar to feed a skunk from June first to December first.
Three years ago or more these prices had doubled, and a skunk with his scent glands out was even more valuable.
No cautious man would undertake to examine a wild skunk as he would a dog or rabbit.
If they do the skunk usually spills the milk or any liquid in the dish, by standing on the sides with its paws.
Yet it is important to know sex and condition of each new skunk as it arrives.
One pound of dog biscuits, or bread, and a few scraps of meat will amply supply a skunk on the road.
As soon as the operation is over the skunk will seek his proper den.
Do not fear to lift the lid and look in, for a skunk must be greatly alarmed and provoked before discharging musk.
To prevent a shot from this deadly battery of the skunk they are disarmed while very young.
Chase the skunk in the entrance slowly and then lift the box up by the handle and look under without fear.
So the boy made up his mind to track the skunk family and discover just where they made their home.
Through the dense, dark spruce forests, far down into the swamps below she took them, where they fed happily upon young frogs or crawfish, and the juicy sprouts of the skunk cabbages.
But when he went to inspect his traps, although he discovered that one of them had been sprung by some night prowler, not a skunk did he find, although several plump hens had disappeared.
But the greedy trappers did not stop at that; they soon got after the skunk family, the weasels, hares, anything which wore fur.
But there right on the edge of the plank bridge stood the farmer’s boy; he had come padding down the mountain road with his bare feet, on his way from the sheep pasture, and his step had been so light the mother skunk had not heard him.
Just as she was turning away, the little skunk gave a sudden, helpless cry, and losing its footing upon the stone, over it went head first into the pool again.
First she urged them all to venture out upon the flat stone, then, as one after another of the little skunk children followed her, she suddenly pushed each one of them with her snout off into the deep water of the pool.
Instantly the mother skunk forgot her hunger and went to investigate.
If he could only sell five good skunk pelts, then he could buy his sled.
He was quite changed in outward appearance from the poverty-stricken skunk I had once known; but was if anything more skunk-like than ever: yet I had to look twice to be sure of him.
