doubleh
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Kerosene and coal-oil too.
Common safety sense need apply, of course.
Yeah.... I KNOW! "Cool story, grandpa!" You'll find the coil oil in the cupboard right between the liniment and the mustard poultice.
Todd.
Ahh, coal oil, the universal medical treatment for medical problems large and small many years ago. When I was a little kid I picked up a brick that had a scorpion living on the underside and it took umbrage at me disturbing his home. Rascal stung me on my little finger. Boy, that smarted something fierce and being a little kid I hollered my head off. My mother got a bit flustered too as there has been a local man died after being stung by a scorpion the week before. What did my dad do? He stuck my hand in a soup can that he poured coal oil in. Obviously I lived over it. I had an older cousin that was working in an uncle's grocery store during summer break and sliced the side off one thumb cutting bananas off a stalk. Coal oil was the treatment in that case and he healed nicely although he's had one skinny thumb since then. No doctor was involved in either incident.
The skunks and snakes are only around where they can find something to eat. Last spring I had a skunk digging holes in my drive way under the bug zapper hanging on the side of the garage. I just let him feast on dead bugs and never even thought about shooting him. When the bug supply dried up he left and hasn't returned. I saved a bullet and didn't have to dispose of a dead skunk that had only dug some small holes that I filled by scraping the gravel back in them with my foot.
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