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. [Illustration] 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. This iz vulgarily called “surking eggs.” This iz an accomplishment known amung humans, which it iz sed, they hav learnt from the pole kats. Pole kats also deal in chickens, yung turkeys, and yung goslins. They won’t tutch an old goose, they are sound on that question. Man iz the only phellow who will attempt tew bight into an old goose, and his teeth fly oph a grate menny times before he loosens enny ov the meat. A pole kat travels under an alias, which is called _skunk_. Thare iz a grate menny _aliases_ that thare iz no accounting for, and this iz one ov them. I hav kaught skunks in a trap. They are eazier tew git into a trap than tew git out ov it. In taking them out ov a trap grate judgment must be had not tew shake them up; the more yu shake them up the more ambrosial they am. One pole kat in a township is enuff, espeshily if the wind changes once in a while. A pole kat skin iz wuth 2 dollars, in market, after it iz skinned, but it iz wuth 3 dollars and fifty cents tew skin him. This iz one way tew make 12 shillings in a wet day. THE WEAZEL. The weazel haz an eye like a hawk, and a tooth like a pickerel. They kan see on all three sides of a right angle tri angle board fence, at once, and kan bite thru a side ov sole leather. They alwus sleep with one eye open, and the other on the wink, and are quicker than spirits ov turpentine, and a lighted match. It iz no disgrace for a streak ov litening tew strike at a weazel and miss him. If I owned a weazel, litening mite strike at him all day for 50 cents a clap. I hav tried tew kill them in a stun wall with a rifle, but they would dodge the ball, when it got within six inches ov them, and stick their heads out ov another krack, three feet further oph.