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Around the Office — Continued 



So far as I can find out, Mel don't report 

 anvthin ' only successes in his skunkology 

 experimentae. Praps he thought this par- 

 tickler time was a success. I don 't know 

 about that. I feel pretty nigh certain the 

 old skunk must have regarded it in the light 

 of somethin' like success. I would have if 

 T had been in her place. The eye witness 

 who told me about it seemed to lean toward 

 allowin' the skunk as havin' as good as 

 half the argument at least. But praps if I'd 

 shut up my advance introductory yap about 

 it and tell you folks the cold facts you could 

 judge for yourself. I guess I '11 try that. 

 The facts are these: A year ago last sum- 

 mer, it seems Mel got the skunk breedin' 

 beetle into his head. Anyway, he found a 

 old mother skunk and five little ones some- 

 where around his diggins, and without let- 

 tin ' the skunks have very much to say about 

 it one way or another, he shut 'em up tight 

 in a old chicken coop and -began supportin' 

 'em there out of his own funds. This didi; 't 

 look like any more freedom for the skunks, 

 and the neighbors began hearin' talk and 

 romancin' about a skunk farm and fur rais- 

 in ' — that it went right along with the queen 

 rearin ' and apiary success, for if he interned 

 skunks in chicken coops on his skunk farm 

 he would know they weren 't lunchin ' on 

 bees and young queens continuous from sun- 

 set to sunup. So Mel, his neighbor tells me, 

 figgered on a double wallop agin the skunks 

 when he began farmin ' 'em — he 'd take their 

 bee lunches away from 'em during the sum- 

 mer and a little later on he'd take their 

 skins away from 'em, too. It wasn 't much 

 he was goin ' to do to the skunks up in his 

 region, was it? Mel ain't cruel, either, but 

 from this it seems he 's a calullatin ' cuss. 

 But one thing he didn't calullate on. That 

 was, the old skunk gettin ' out of her coop 

 in the day time and goin ' on the rampage. 

 No, sir, he didn 't. For you know, Mel 's 

 odorless recipe of pick- 'em-up-by-the(-tail- 

 bef ore-they-think ain 't guaranteed to work 

 well only after dark and when you've got 

 the skunk mentally stampeded and optically 

 blinded with an electric flashlight leveled 

 into said skunk 's eyes. A loose, clear see- 

 in ' skunk in the day time, it seems, is 

 somethin' different to Mel from an electric 

 blinded skunk at night. Anyway, he pro- 

 ceeds different. The fact is, I can 't get any 

 satisfyiu ' proof that Mel tries his own odor- 

 less system ever when he's alone and is try- 

 in ' to play the game safe. He's great on 

 recommendin' it to his neighbors, tho, and 

 he'll try it to show off, if he's got some 

 ignorant, undersized, inexperienced, young 

 skunk electrically twisted. So, as I was 

 savin ', the old she skunk 's breakin ' out 

 uncx])eeted in the day time put it up to 

 Mel different. But he didn 't propose to give 

 up skunk farmin ' and wealth via the fur 

 route just because the female head of his 

 herd was found unexpectedly surgin ' loose 

 around his old straw stack. He'd cage her, 



