"I'll have to take him back to the barn and have Hiram turn the hose on him for twenty-four hours."
"Isn't there a reward for skunks in the country?" now asked the Captain.
"Not only a reward, but the pelts are valuable since they became so fashionable," remarked Mr. Gilroy, complacently.
"Well, Jake's earned his keep to-day, then," declared Judith.
"But it will cost more than the skunk brings to pay for the nine hundred and ninety-nine bottles of fleur-de-lis toilet water Gilly will have to use to change Jake's scent!" laughed Julie.
CHAPTER NINE
LESSONS IN TRACKING
"Well, scouts! That shows us how little we know about wild animal's tracks," remarked Mrs. Vernon, after Jake had been made to go back to the bungalow, and the Troop went on to camp.
"I could have sworn that skunk's footprints were a coon's or a fox's,—or something big!" exclaimed Julie, trying to justify her mistake.