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...fate of the skunk is a problem worthy of our legislators, of the Debating Union, and the CRIMSON. A skunk is no laughing matter. The fate of the owl, the hawk, the snake, the fox and the skunk are chapters in the conservation of wild life from rugged individualism...
...Consider the skunk. . .yet Solomon was not arrayed like one of these." If you don't believe this, pick up one and get the surprise of your life. He will not bite, or scratch, or squeal, or kick--the skunk is as gentle as a breeze...
Unfortunately, various people of unwelcome experience with the Skunk family--those gauche Skunks, you know, my dear--have wailed long and loudly about the rights of other citizens to remain sweet-smelling. Farmers complain that skunks dig up bumble bees and not only make them so ill-tempered that they attack without warning, but destroy them as well, preventing the pollenization of the clover. Against such charges, even the skunks retire in confusion...
...matter will form an issue in the 1929 legislature of Michigan; perhaps a Senatorial Investigation Committee will hold hearings concerning it. Such a hearing should be entertaining, with the enemies of skunks exhibiting disinterred clothes and sometimes embarrassingly placed bee stings against the evidence of the friends of skunks who will show the little allies of man eating obnoxious insects and in the form of furs. The hearing would be decidedly unfair were not a skunk invited to show what he could do in an exhibition of natural talent. Laws are too much based on nebulous theory; here...
...Dare insisted that a fire which raged last week over 6,000 acres of scrub oak and stunted pines, driving before it and suffocating, singeing, roasting a stampede of deer, foxes, rabbits, mice, had all started from a smudge ignited by one Ernest Chenel, 9, to smoke out a skunk...