208 THE PUMA AND CAT FAMILY. 



had wandered in as usual to the dining-room. H 



replied that he was *the only person, he supposed, 

 who had killed a skunk/ and that he hoped she did 

 not ' consider him a dog.' 



He took the hint, however, and left to change his 

 clothes ; but it was many a day before he ceased to 

 perfume with his presence his own house, his fields, 

 and, for fifty-yards round, any place where he was 

 standing for a few minutes. 



Hundreds of stories are told of greenhorns who have 

 been thus scented ; and I have kno\\Ti scores of instances 

 where people who knew all about them have been 

 caught at night, when incautiously they have gone to 

 the protection of their fowls, &c. 



