The Scent of the Skunk

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The Scent of the Skunk A Native American Folk Tale
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The skunk was once a larger animal than he is
now- he was as large as a hill. But he became
smaller and smaller and thiscaused him to worry.
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"If I grow smaller and smaller," he said, "I will
lose my strength. Then how can I hunt, and kill
my game, and make my living?"
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And so he thought and thought. "I know," he
said. "I will make a strong hunting medicine
which will give me skill even when I am not so
large as now."
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He hunted and hunted to find all the plants as he
could grasp in his hand, he took them home. He
ground them up very, very fine, like a powder.
Then, when this medicine was all prepared, he
placed it in a little pouch that he carried
with him wherever he went.
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Then he said, "I will test my medicine against
the biggest, strongest thing I can find." He
looked around, and there he saw a large oak tree
nothing could be bigger or stronger than this
tree, and decided to test his medicine against
it.
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He took some powder out of his pouch - only a
pinch of the powder was needed - and put it in
some water, and drank it.Then, to make still
more powerful medicine, he sang, "Who is going
out hunting, for I go out to hunt?"
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Then the skunk shot at the oak tree - not with an
arrow, but with this medicine, a foul-smelling
liquid - and the tree shrank away and died, and
looked as if it were burned. Nothing was left but
a pile of ashes. The hunting medicine made by
that skunk was the same as that the skunk carries
today.
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The End
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Works Cited

• http//www.geocities.com/RainForest/7694/music.htm
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• http//www.rdwarf.com/skunks/
• http//aleph0.clarku.edu/rajs/nepal-him.html
• http//indy4.fdl.cc.mn.us/isk/poca/pocahont.html
• http//www.powersource.com/gallery/objects/default
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