I2O EASY-CHAIR MEMORIES 



This chapter about skunks is very amusing. 

 Fergy says : 



" Skunks is mos' s'prisin' things. Skunks 

 is got sense like a lead horse. They c'n tell 

 four hundred yards off in thick woods whether 

 or not you got a gun. Ef you got a gun you 

 don' see no skunk. Ef you ain't got a gun the 

 skunk gits right in your path and stays there. 



" The neares 7 you get to him the more he 

 humps his back. He just waits f r you. He 

 knows in reason that you cain't come much 

 closer. What's the end o' that ? You gotten 

 to git out'n the way. It do make a man mad 

 to have to dodge an 7 creep through the brush, 

 giving the road to a measly thing like a skunk, 

 but you gotter sneak roun'. Cose some skunks 

 is got more sense as other skunks, but they all 

 got sense. I knowed a skunk onct " 



But I must not tell that story, it is too long 

 and too good. He tells the story of the pink- 

 bellied frog of Swamp Lake. 



" Frogs," says Fergy, " is funny things. 

 They differs. Some o' 'em ain't got no more 

 knowhow as a' arf- Injun Frenchmun full o' 

 Norwegian beer, an' some o' 'em could len' you 

 sense and never miss it. Frogs in ginrul is 



