black cats and rats de bois
Michael Mccafferty
mmccaffe at indiana.edu
Tue Jul 16 18:22:43 UTC 2002
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002, David Costa wrote:
>
> In my experience, the French 'Algonquianist missionaries' called the raccoon
> 'chat sauvage',
standard for all French in les Pays d'en haut.
and the fisher 'pecan'. They might have been more variable
> about skunks, tho the Illinois missionaries at least called them 'be(s)te
> puante'.
yes. precisely. stinking beast
They tended to call the possum 'rat de bois'.
Yes. exactly. woodrat
Michael McCafferty
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