Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 41
e fell swoop!Add to these two more new species, and insteadof five species only we are now obliged to con-fess ownership to fifteen species, and all bad. 604 A FEW OF OUR FUR-BEARERS. [May, Just what we Americans have done to earn this additional disgrace, I am puzzled to guess.It is not necessary… … COMMON SKUNK. meanest and wickedest-looking animal for hissize that I ever saw. Instead of having a headshaped like those of other mammals, his is coni-cal, like the end of a half-burned stick. Hisjet-black color, which is intensified by his purewhite markings, and his snake-like, glitteringblack…
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