As for larger game, rabbits and the like, the crow is hardly nimble enough for them, nor are his claws well adapted for seizing; anything of this kind he will scarcely get, except as the leavings of the weasel or skunk.

This persistence exposes the quail to hardship when the ground is covered with snow, and the fruit of the skunk-cabbage and all the berries and grain are inaccessible.

I'd know that skunk any time from that.

"I'm pretty near dead, but I'm still man enough to wring the neck of a skunk!

"We want you, you yellow skunk!" retorted Mooney.

She's that sortthe sort that none but a skunk could deceive.

Don't I wish they'd caught the skunk in the act!"

"Business before pleasure, every time with me; and it's only right you should devote every atom of your mind and body to beating that skunk to the post.

And if it's true that these strangers in our country are going to be abused because they're poor,what else could I do with my money and not feel like a skunk? FEJEVARY: (trying a different tack, laughing)

drunk as a lord, drunk as a skunk, drunk as a piper, drunk as a fiddler, drunk as Chloe, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a wheelbarrow.

"I say: String him up an' drill the skunk full of holes.

She next bewitched the skunk with her foolishness.

But one day, as they walked together, a dog suddenly attacked the skunk and in his anger and excitement he so perfumed the woman, instead of the dog, with his odor that her husband found her out and gave her a beating.

You're a skunk, Barkerand I hate to let you go.

Of carnivorous animals, we have the Panther and Black Bear in the wooded portions of the State, though rare; the Lynx, the Gray and Black Wolf, and the Prairie Wolf; the Skunk, the Badger, the Woodchuck, the Raccoon, and, in the southern part of the State, the Opossum.

When he spoke the words came in a ferment of fury: "That skunk of a Harrison says he won't bring the thresher up here this year; claims the road's too rough and bridges are too weak for the engine.

"If the skunk won't be trained he shall go untrained.

SEE Foerster, Norman. STEARNS, DAVID M. Sniffy: the story of a skunk.

Sniffy: the story of a skunk.

"You sneakin' skunk, you, I'll larn ye to eat my apples!" He snatched at the apple, and was too successful; for before he reached it I opened my hand in obedience to his onslaught; and the apple rolled in the manure and litter of the stable, and was soiled and befouled.

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.

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.

"Yuh low-down skunk!"

" "And I'll bet yuh the old skunk is going to start up a cow-outfit right under our nosesthough why the dickens the Double-Crank wasn't good enough for him gets me.

And then I looked up an' down the road an' seen there was no dust comin' an' we wouldn't be interrupted, an' I went up to the old skunk