Joseph, you had better look out for your pears to-night," she added, laughing.
The old Squire went on eating his supper for some minutes without comment; but just as we finished, he said, "Boys, where did we put our skunk fence last fall ?" "Rolled it up and put it in the wagon-house chamber," said I.
"About a hundred and fifty feet of it, isn't there ?" "A hundred and sixty," said Addison.

"Enough, you know, to go round that patch of sweet corn in the garden." "That wire fence worked well with four-footed robbers," the old Squire remarked, with a twinkle in his eye.

"Perhaps it might serve for the two-footed kind.

You fetch that down, boys; I've an idea we may use it to-night." For several summers the garden had been ravaged by skunks.

Although carnivorous by nature, the little pests seem to have a great liking for sweet corn when in the milk.
Wire fence, woven in meshes, such as is now used everywhere for poultry yards, had then recently been advertised.