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guillotine, operating on the principle of gravitational pull, therefore requiring no commensurate exercise of human strength on the part of the executioner: and poison gas, released by the body heat of the victim. He has even considered inhumane means, either starvation or suffocation by blocking the escape hole with cement blocks.
The more subtle methods of persuasion and of psychology, .have not been over-looked. Modestly Jack has suggested that his gardener-caretaker undertake this mission.
Although I have long honored the rule not to tread where angles, editors, and columnists fear to tread, and have hesitated to enter some places where the above mentioned do not fear to ire:i, the desperation of Jack's call for help has moved me to make one suggestion to him. a suggestion based on boyhood experience on a Minnesota farm long ago.
The whole process was called ‘'twisting a skunk.” The instrument, a ball of barbed wire, attached to heavier smooth wire, with a handle (a kind of proto-type of the modern roto-rooter.)
The tedhnique was to insert the ball end of the instrument into the skunk's den and then slowly rotate it, by twisting at the far end of the wire handle, untilt he operator sensed, by smell or touch some engagement of the barbed wire and the skunk. The compelling principle being that a skunk under challenge or stress will turn tail, but not run from whatever threatens it, confronts or con-backs it) Functionally, then the skunk's tail becomes involved in the ball of barbed wire. When fully engaged, that is, he tail, the skunk, with its ail immobilized in the wire .■ntanglement. was slowly Irawn from the hole, and hen disposed of humanely or itherwise.
Whereas. as every X'lumnist knows, and most tave said, in need of a netaphor, a tail wagging a log is an undesirable elationship; a tail wagging a kunk is the best one can • ope for under the cirumstances.
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