The only way to get one out of the house is to pour buckets of cold water on it.

That keeps the tail down (unlike a horse, which cannot kick when his tail is up); but when his tail goes up, then look out! The skunk is also more dreaded by the cowboy and the frontiers-man than the rattlesnake.

It is their belief that a bite from this creature will always convey hydrophobia.

Being a night prowler it frequents cow camps, and often crawls over the beds spread on the ground, and it certainly has a habit of biting any exposed part of the human body.

When it does so, the bitten man at once starts off to Texas, where at certain places one can hire the use of a madstone.