My friend, did yu ever examin the fragrant pole kat clussly? I guess
not, they are a kritter who won't bear examining with a microskope.
They are butiful beings, but oh! how deceptive.
Their habits are phew, but unique.
They bild their houses out ov earth and the houses hav but one door tew
them, and that iz a front door.
When they enter their houses they don't shut the door after them.
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They are called pole kats bekause it iz not convenient tew kill them
with a klub, but with a pole, and the longer the pole the more
convenient.
Writers on natural history, dissagree about the right length ov the pole
tew be used, but i would suggest, that the pole be about 365 feet,
espeshily if the wind iz in favor ov the pole kat.
When a pole kat iz suddenly walloped with a long pole, the fust thing
he, she, or it duz, iz tew embalm the air, for menny miles in diameter,
with an akrlmonious olifaktory refreshment, which permeates the ethereal
fluid, with an entirely original smell.
This smell iz less popular, in the fashionable world, than lubins
extrakt, but the day may cum when it will be bottled up like musk, and
sold for 87 1-2 cents per bottle; bottles small at that.
A pole kat will remove the filling from a hens egg, without braking a
hole in the shell, bigger than a marrow fat pea.
How this iz did historians hav left us to doubt.