"It is a little thing worth knowing," returned Jack. "Never caught a pole-cat, I take it."
"I never caught anything," said Bertie.
"Seen 'em?"
"I don't know that ever I did."
"Smelt 'em?"
Bertie confessed that he had no acquaintance whatever with the animal, but mentioned that once they found a skunk in Charley's chicken-house sucking eggs, and they killed it.
"Him's um," said Jack.
"Oh!"
"Didn't cook it, I suppose."
"Cook it!"