Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 41
l, like the end of a half-burned stick. Hisjet-black color, which is intensified by his purewhite markings, and his snake-like, glitteringblack eyes, make him look a veritable impfrom the Bad Place. His big, bushy tail hecarries erect over his back, defiantly and threat-eningly, like the black… … STRIPED SKUNK. though every mans hand is against him, thelynxes and wolves and eagles know enoughabout natural history to let him severely alone. But even the Skunk has his uses. He nowfurnishes a great quantity of good fur, and healso renders some service to the farmer in thedestruction of harmful…
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