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The Skunk 



city belle come from the little bicolored animab 

 called "wood-pussies" by the country folk. 



Whether one comes upon the skunk by day or by 

 night he seems never to be in any. haste to conceal 

 himself. Such implicit confidence has he in his 

 ability to defend himself that he treads the forest 



The Skunk 

 as boldly as though he were lord of all he surveys, 

 showing a lofty indifference to the presence of man 

 and beast. He protects himself by spraying the 

 enemy with a musky secretion having a most powerful 



