The enterprise-recorder. (Madison, Fla.) 1908-1933, 1910-02-03


meditatcd this dinner Like lots OF
other things in this world, It was I'M
expectedly thrust upon them. While
Mrs. Higgins found herself, when
warm weather come, quite put TO II
to manage the meat question without
ice. gill IN her most despairing mo-
ments Of what to have to cat, she
never thought Of resorting to skunk
likewise It never occurred TO MT Hlg-
gins to get out some night and exc out
the provisions with skunk meat, Ihey
both knew that skunks lived on their
hfll, not that they had seen them
It had not been necessary. So iar'
however the idea Of eating SKUNK
meat was a thought which had never
entered the heads Of this young city
couple who were spending their iirst
year in the country. The one dehn'
ite idea that they both had about TINS
animal was TO keep as far from II as
possible. They did not know what
skunk looked like and they did not
care. Their noses gave them all the
information that they wanted, Every
time they rushed out to see If one was
hanging around the chickens, they
Bhivered to think what they would do
II they actually found one.
Mrs. Higgins knew she should
run, chickens or no chickens, as
fast as she could for the house and
lock the doors.
"And leave me all alone" Mr.. Hig-
gins had asked
"To kill the skunk. What else would
you do?" promptly answered his WIFE
Mr. Higgins did not know Of any
thing else to do, but he wondered to
himself how he would kill the enemy
It remained for Mr., Higgins sister
and the early peas, both nice things
in their different ways, 10 precipitate
the youthful Higginses into that game
dinner wherein the skunk furnished
the game.
The first Of June brought Mr. Hig.
gins sister from Boston to spend the
summer. She was little older than
Mrs. Higgins and had that aid Of dis
tinction that an unmarried woman gets
who is still young, good looking and
who might have been married several
times If she had wished, There Is
something in this atmosphere around
the unmarried woman that makes the
young married woman feel little I'M
comfortable as If she had been too
hasty, perhaps, in marrying, Mrs
Higgins had this uncomfortable feeling
now She felt sure that Helen, on
principle. would not have married the
first man who proposed to her even If
It had been Tom, Perhaps she had
been hasty and she began to look at
Tom from quite a critical point of
view Incidentally Mr. Higgins began
TO feel uncomfortable.
whats the matter?" he broke out
one day. I'm the same as ever so
far as | know but something seems
wrong about me to You most every
day What's up"
Nothing was up Mrs. Higgins as
sured him. She could not very well
tell him what was the matter, and he
with his unelastic man brain, never
thought of connecting his sisters com.
ing with the crop Of faults that seemed
suddenly, and to him uneXplainedly,
coming out on him,
Then Mrs. Higgins looked upon her
sister-in-law with awe l,ecause she
was such fine cook She surely
was, Tom had always talked Of Hell.
ems cooking ever since Mrs Higgins
could remember. This had been worse
than listening to tales Of mothers
cooking" because mothers-in-law are
80 much older that they ought to be
able to cook better, but Helen was
not much older than she. And Helen
was certainly fond Of cooking. She
loved nothing better than to be in
pantry and kitchen among pots and
pans, Like all born cooks, Helen liked
to experiment and never felt obliged to
hold to cook books, And herein Turk
ed one Of the possibilities Of the skunk
dinner towards which circumstances
were driving the Higginses. Helen
liked not only to cook old things in
new ways but 10 cook new things in
new ways, and best of all, to discover
new articles which could be used for
food. Mr., and Mrs. Higgins had al
ready had a taste OF this as she had
cooked about all the green things
growing on the hill for greens"