On Friday, Apr 20, 2007, at 19:19 America/New_York, longtom2222 wrote:
> This brings back a childhood memory of a book series I read when I
> was a kid about the different adventures of a boy in the 1940's (his
> name was "Henry", if I recall correctly), and one of the stories I
> read was about his having a skunk named "Aroma", and it was still
> able to spray.
That sounds like Homer Price. The only Henry I remember is Beverly
Cleary's Henry Huggins and he had a dog Ribsy but no skunk. I think
Ribsy may have run into a skunk once tho'.
> There was a reference to a commercial about an aftershave that
> advertised its smell as "keeping you on your toes", and there was a
> scene where the skunk sprayed in an area where said brand of
> aftershave was spilled, and the odor was such that "it made you want
> to close your eyes." The finale was there was a group of criminals
> who gather in the room of a boarding house to sleep the night, and
> Henry discovers them and decides to capture them by sneaking their
> box of guns out of their room, and sending Aroma inside. The
> criminals flee outside in a panic, and meet Henry who has a gun
> pointed of them. Henry tells the gangsters to march to the police
> station. "In our pajamas?" one wails. "And barefoot?" says
> another. The answer is yes, and that's the story of Aroma the skunk.
Haha! It was truly a different time. Boys with guns and crooks in
their jammies.
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