Skunk in a box

I was about 11 or 12 years old. Dad had taken me to the farm for the weekend.
When we arrived at the farm, Elbert and Walter had a big story about how they had lured a skunk to eat a porkchop out of there hand and then threw the porkchop into a milkcan. when the skunk went in the milkcan after the porkchop they slamed the lid on the can and caught the skunk, then they put the can up to the exhaust pipe on the farm truck and gassed the skunk.
A week or so after that Dad received a parcel in the mail. The parcel was wrapped in a shoebox just about the size it would take to hold a skunk, and it was from,Elber and Walter Forsland in Langley
My dad wa sure the boys had caught another skunk and mailed it to him as a joke. Of course Dad was afraid to open the box because of the smell it would make. So he waited till the next day and when he got to work at the mill he took the box into the burner and was ready to throw it in the fire and run like hell if it was a skunk.
he very carfully unwrapped the box, ready to throw it, ttok the lid off, and no smell. The box was stuffed full of newspaper and when he got it all unwrapped he found, a few rocks for weight, and a tiny pair of glass slippers ornements about one inch long.
The Fosland Boys had sure fooled him that time, I remember how they all laughed about it next time we went to the farm :
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Elbert and Walter were friends of my dads, I dont know how they met but The Forstland Boys and there farm were a big influounce on my life, even today at almost age 65 i think of them often and wish i could tell them about the farm I now have. Of course they are long gone and i dought if i will ever get back to Canada to see the farm that they left for a park to the city of Langly