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Skunk Forever!
My uncle always said that Skunk (nickname) wasn't the sharpest-tool in the shed! Somehow he had managed to catch a baby Polecat (sometimes called a skunk) before its musk glands had fully developed. He persuaded both my uncle and aunt to let him cut the musk glands out of the critter so he could keep him for a pet. His argument was that a Polecat was a better rat and mice catcher than a cat and that they made wonderful pets. Both my uncle and aunt agreed and thus proved to me that intelligence or the lack of it actually does run in families.
After he had the Polecat neutered, so to speak, he would carry him around inside his shirt, allowing him to stick his head out through the front, appearing to watch where he was going and what they were doing. For a while, Baby, as my cousin named him, was a real attraction to the girls around the small community of Caesar. Later, as Baby got older, he began to emit a certain animal smell and the girls would avoid him like they would a plague. My cousin couldn't understand the sudden change in the local girls until his older brother mentioned that it might be good to give Baby a bath now and then and possibly take one himself.
The incident in which my cousin received the nickname "Skunk" occurred on a cold, rainy, winters night. He and his older brother were out shining Possums with their carbide headlamps that they had received for Christmas. They had left Baby at the house, not wanting him to get wet. Often Baby would sneak out when his owner would go into the woods, catch up with him, and insist on being carried along on the trip.
This particular night they had treed several Possums that were hanging around the chicken coop down by the milk barn, shook them out of the trees in which they were hiding to give them the opportunity to whip the little mongrel dog that always hunted with them. I don't recall a Possum ever winning.
About midnight they were heading back home with their "mother load" of Possums when they spotted Baby, or they thought it was Baby, entering a stump hole near the dairy barn. "Better get Baby before he goes down in that hole or you may lose him," my older cousin told him.
Skunks always enter a den face first in case there is a predator around that might want to grab them. As you probably know, the rear end of a skunk is the lethal end. With the tail raised it is cocked and ready to fire.
When this "shining example of mentality" reached down to grab Baby by the tail (only it wasn't Baby) the full load of skunk perfume hit him square on the chest. It was at that moment that my older cousin made up the saying that is still going around the Caesar Community-"don't take my brother long to look at a skunk".
For the next two weeks Polecat, as I will call him to break the monotony, had a vacation from school although he was required to take a bath each night and had to sleep on the porch. Not long after this incident, Baby moved out and took up residence in the woods near the Chicken yard. His descendents still live there.
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