Outing . and with thecamera primed for Badger I dashedaround the willowsâinto a most violentdose of skunk! The air was hazy, thick,for a big prairie Mephitis had been doneto death and as usual with his kind, hehad died valiantly. Sick of the Job Half a dozen hounds were gagging andcoughing and rubbing their faces on theground, shedding real tears the of them had a nasty cut acrosshis face where Mephitis had brought hisforward turret into action and bittenhard. But Sport now held the center ofthe stage. He was getting in his workon the prostrate foeâwork usually de-nied to him where t
Outing . and with thecamera primed for Badger I dashedaround the willowsâinto a most violentdose of skunk! The air was hazy, thick,for a big prairie Mephitis had been doneto death and as usual with his kind, hehad died valiantly. Sick of the Job Half a dozen hounds were gagging andcoughing and rubbing their faces on theground, shedding real tears the of them had a nasty cut acrosshis face where Mephitis had brought hisforward turret into action and bittenhard. But Sport now held the center ofthe stage. He was getting in his workon the prostrate foeâwork usually de-nied to him where the others so muchswifter beat him to the kill. Though thevictim probably was dead before he hada chance to lay mouth on it, he shook ittill he was out of breath. Then he layon it and rested, after which he shookit again, and took breath and began atthe beginning. A-r-r-r-gh! he seemedto say, You stinking beast! killings toogood for you; Ill shake you to bits, youtough! fat! smelly!âa-r-r-r-rgh! And. THEY WERE A LIKELY FAMILY OF CANINES. THE DOG-WAGON ON LEFT I was told that he never worried a foxor wolf or rabbit in such manner. The commander of the expedition saidthat water was good medicine for thepoor dogs after such a trying adventure,so we headed for the nearest slough. Onthe way there we jumped a jack. Thishare was both wise and fortunate, theformer that he ran up wind, the latterthat he was able to stay there. Also heescaped. Though Ned said that such afumigating did not worry the dogs much,it was plain that they did not run atmospheric conditions werestill so abnormal that they saw more thanone hare and chased the wrong one. Cer-tain it is they lost him. Toward evening we started anotherjack that was not so fortunate. He wasrouted from the grass beside the trailand darted for the summer-fallow imme-diately, but the footing was fairly hardas it had been plowed some time, and thedogs quickly pulled up on him. Soon,however, their previous running beganto
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