How Skunks
Got Their Smell
One day Gluscabi took his bow and arrow to the woods and thought that he needed a nice blanket for his bed and his Grand-mother's bed. He decided to use skunk fur for this. He would go back and forth once a day for four days. He would bring back a skunk every day.
Gluscabi headed toward the woods with his bow and arrow. He was
hoping to catch a skunk for his blanket. He spotted one and took
his bow and arrow out of its pouch. He aimed and shot. Right in
the head of the skunk. He started to run after it and failed.
Somehow it managed to escape Gluscabi.
There
was silence when he was shot. It was so quiet it seemed that the
whole world was not there.
Nutty Brave, the skunk who was a doctor, came to nurse Nutty Nut
who had been shot by Gluscabi. There was no cure for the wound
that Nutty Nut had received. He was expected to die, and so he
did. Nutty Brave started to get a bad stench from nursing Nutty
Nut. And he could not get rid of it. Gluscabi found Nutty Nut
and took him home to get fixed up
for dinner and to get ready for bed.
Nutty Brave brought the news to the f
our skunks who
were still alive. They did not believe what he said and headed
out to the woods to get dinner. They did not see any one out there.
They came back to the house and told Nutty Brave that no one was
out there and started to eat dinner.
"I will go and get dinner tonight," said Nutty Buddy!
With that, he headed out of the nest and tried to get dinner.
He did not notice but Gluscabi had the arrow pointing right at
him. He aimed and then he fired, right on target, in the head.
Gluscabi knew it from the start that this one would not get away.
He retrieved the skunk and took it home for dinner.
Nutty Brave came out to look for Nutty Buddy, but he did not see
him. There was no sign of him. Then he spotted a pile of blood,
and it gave him another bad smell like the one before, but much
worse.
He reported the news to the other skunks and they did not believe
him, they thought that he would be late with the food, but he
never came back. There was silence the rest of the night as no
one was talking.
Chipper was going to get dinner tonight. He had a lot of confidence
in himself. Again Gluscabi had the perfect aim at him. He let
go of the arrow, and it hit him in the heart and he died
immediately. Gluscabi picked him up and brought him home to make
the dinner. Later that night, Nutty Brave came to find there was
another pile of blood on the floor. Chipper was dead and probably
being cooked by now.
Now it was just Nutty Brave and Hungry Nuts, Hungry Nuts wanted
to go out and get the dinner, so he did that. He was outside and
once more Gluscabi had the perfect aim at him. He let the arrow
go and it hit him. He was dead. There was a pile of blood on the
ground when Nutty Brave came there. He thought that he had to
get revenge on Gluscabi and so he did. He was brought back to
Gluscabi's house and made into dinner and made into a blanket.
The next night, Nutty Brave smelled worse then ever. He would
shoot his smell at Gluscabi and Gluscabi would run away. He saw
Gluscabi and then ran up to him while dodging the
arrows that Gluscabi was shooting at him. He came so close to
him that he could spray him, and he did. Gluscabi ran home and
never put another foot in those woods again!
And that
is how skunks came about getting their smell.