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Striped Coat, the Skunk

By Joseph Wharton Lippincott

2019-06-11 18:53:22

In the past the skunk has been badly treated by authors. It was so easy to take a humorous but barbed fling at the poor wood pussy! But that day is past, for facts will out and our debt of gratitude is too great longer to be ignored. If my own words ... Read more
In the past the skunk has been badly treated by authors. It was so easy to take a humorous but barbed fling at the poor wood pussy! But that day is past, for facts will out and our debt of gratitude is too great longer to be ignored. If my own words in tracing a part of the life history of Striped Coat, prove at all illuminating, I shall be happy. I have come across several skunks of his peculiar marking; one of them, partly tamed, is shown in the illustrations; but the story itself is largely fictional though following throughout the habits and true characteristics of these wild little friends of man. Belonging as they do to the elusive weasel tribe and being largely nocturnal in their habits, to chronicle all the actual happenings in the natural, wild life of one of them would seem an impossible task. Less

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File size1433.669 KB
Print pages198
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0397302833
Joseph Wharton Lippincott (February 28, 1887[1] – October 22, 1976) was a noted publisher, author, naturalist, and sportsman who was the grandson of Joshua Ballinger Lippincott, founder of Philadelp...

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