SECOND WEEK] November 293 



usually content to go on his way peacefully, and when 

 one of these creatures becomes accustomed to the sight of 

 an observer, no more interesting and, indeed, safer object 

 of study can be found. 



Depart once from the conventional mode of greeting a 

 skunk, and instead of hurling a stone in its direction 

 and fleeing, place, if the opportunity present itself, bits of 

 meat in its way evening after evening, and you will soon 

 learn that there is nothing vicious in the heart of the 

 skunk. The evening that the gentle animal appears 

 leading in her train a file of tiny infant skunks, you will 

 feel well repaid for the trouble you have taken. Baby 

 skunks, like their elders, soon learn to know their friends, 

 and are far from being at hair-trigger poise, as is generally 

 supposed. 



