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way right suddent, too, and this resentment 

 of hers filled the dishpan and anythin' con- 

 tiguous to the same full up and overflowed 

 into the next township some. His neighbor 

 says when Mel got his countenance dis- 

 connected from the general situation he 

 pointed it straight out mostly in the direc- 

 tion of fresh air, and his earnestness in 

 separatin ' his hands from mixed tin and 

 skunk made the best efforts of any dog with 

 a can tied onto his tail seem like nothin ' but 

 inaction. 



I don't know as there is any use in linger- 

 in' any longer around this scene. Mel did- 

 n 't. He called out from the barn window 

 a little later on to his wife for a complete 

 change of clothes, shoes and all. He also 

 ain't got no skunk farm, and whilst I would- 

 n 't say this incident done it, yet to this day 

 if Mel comes suddent onto a piece of rusted 

 tin he shys way off to one side just like a 

 scared horse. 



The lastin ' moral I extract out of this 

 dishpannin ' of skunks is, if you are goin ' 

 to clap somethin' down on top of somethin ' 

 else that 's likely to make a offensive smell 

 if it gets out, be sure your clapper ain 't 



rusted any. 



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And now, right onto the top of what I 

 have hinted about Mel's lackin ' some skunk 

 expertness sometimes, think of W. H. Mills 

 of Arden, Nebr., coming right out and tell- 

 in ' me by letter that Mel doesn 't know any- 

 thing about skunks. He did just that, and 

 I am goin ' to print it right here, whether 

 Mel ever speaks to me again or not. Here 

 is what Mills says: " M.-A.-O.: — Your skunk 

 story is all right in part. You are right as 

 to the skunk's destroying and weakening a 

 great many bees. They do that. They also 

 destroy thousands of nests of bumble bees; 

 also a great many ground nesting birds. In 

 giving Mel Pritchard 's mode of killing 

 skunks, when you got to the main point you 

 fell off. You said that Mel said when his 

 neighbor got the skunk carefully lifted from 

 the ground by the tail, that he should hit 

 the skunk on the head. That shows that he 

 does not know anything about skunks! If 

 he had said, ' Now hit him a smart blow 

 across the small of the back, ' then there 

 would have been no smell. I have picked 

 up skunks by the tail and put them in a 

 sack and carried them home on horseback 

 and they did not stink. I have kept skunks 

 and raised lots of them and they are the 

 easiest and gentlest animals to work with 

 that I ever saw. I have trapped 160 skunks 

 in one fur season. I have never yet found 

 it necessary to make a very great fuss about 

 skunk odor. It is something like bee stings 

 — it don 't amount to anything after you get 



used to it. " 



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That's right — when a feller's down every- 

 body pile onto him. Lambaste him while 

 the lambastin 's good. Dr. Miller has his 



