Of course, we had to have our wits with us all the time, because there are Hawks and Owls and Minks down there just as there are up here, but any Duck who can't keep out of their way deserves to furnish one of them a dinner.
Page 191] There was a family of young Minks who lived at the foot of the waterfall, where the water splashed and dashed in the way they liked best.
The Minks lived by a waterfall in the river, and had burrows in the banks, where the young Minks stayed until they were large enough to go out into the world.
The young Minks heard their fathers and mothers talking, and wished that they had been born with white tips on their tails so that they could be lucky too.
THE LUCKY MINK During the warm weather, the Minks did not come often to the pond.
Minks are very brave and very fierce, and never know when to stop if they have begun to fight; so, after that, nobody dared tease Big Brother by saying anything more about the Bachelor.
The Minks were a very dark brown, and scattered through their close, soft fur were long, shining hairs of an even darker shade, which made their coats very beautiful indeed.
The other young Minks laughed at Big Brother, and asked him if he thought his tail would turn white if he followed the Bachelor long enough.
It is even more uncommon than for Minks to have white upper lips, and that happens only once in a great while.
When the Minksvisited together, somebody was sure to speak of the Bachelor's luck.
The shores of its creeks and fens are tenanted by minks and muskrats.
And the wonder is that they escape, even for this short time, the skunks and minks and muskrats that abound here, and that have a decided partiality for such tidbits.
Following a trout stream up a wild mountain gorge, not long since, I counted five in the distance of a mile, all within easy reach, but safe from the minks and the skunks, and well housed from the storms.
If Pap agrees to paint a panorama and take Lin along you can get Sis Minks to work for you.
Sis Minks sang "Barbara Allen" with such telling effect that the assembled multitude became "as subdued as a Quaker meetin'" as Lin described it.
Foxes, martens, minks and rabbits are always killed in this way.
Them minks slid off'n Star in a hurry, I reckon, judgin' how they left their shanty.
But he was an autocrat, and kept all rival minks away from his range; so the wise brown mouse knew that as long as he kept a sharp enough lookout against that foe, he was secure in the air-chambers.
The young weasels, foxes, skunks, and minks were beginning to run.
Minks are fond of fish, and can capture them in the water.
They placed the minks over their shoulders, and then continued the hunt, presently stirring up half a dozen rabbits.
Each of the minkswas over a foot in length, not counting the bushy tail.
This time their aims were better, and in a moment each of the minks lay stretched out on the rocks, dead.
On the journey back from the City to the suburb where he lived, Minks made a sonnet on it.
And he rather astonished the imperturbable Minks next day by the announcement that he was thinking of going abroad for a little holiday.
Minks instantly turned and went down it with his load so fast that the scenery changed before the heavy traffic could get out of the way.
To watch him, you would never have dreamed that Herbert Minks had ever contemplated City life, much less known ten years of drudgery in its least poetic stages.
Minks and his cousin were helping her into her cloak.
The voices of Minks and Mother renewed the stream of sound that swept by him then, though he caught no words that were comparable in value to these little singing phrases that she used from time to time.
For Herbert Minks regarded himself as a man with the larger view of citizenship, a critic of public affairs, and, in a measure, therefore, an item of that public opinion which moulded governments.
I'm ready, gentlemen, when you are,' answered the voice of Minks outside.
There are also several barrels in this farm filled with corn shucks and hay for the minks to enter during cold weather.
A farm cannot be built without money, and the cost of one sufficiently large to breed minks profitably ranges from five hundred to a thousand dollars.
Old and experienced trappers will tell you that minks were very difficult to trap last season as compared with the seasons of a few years ago, when they could be so easily trapped in dead-falls.
No matter what capital is involved, or expense incurred, in entering into the business of breeding minks for their fur, the returns will be so big that this will appear small in comparison.
A farm stocked for the first time during the winter with five hundred female minks should bring its owner the following winter approximately twenty thousand dollars.
The minks caught in Louisiana last season were sold at an average price of three dollars.
The minks in such a farm, owing to the continuous change of water in the bayou, would always have an abundance of food.
Then people will have to build farms in which to breed minks for their fur, and mink farms will become common.
Breeding minks in Louisiana for their fur can be made a very profitable industry.
In a small farm where minks are in close captivity and have to be fed, the old ones used for the purpose of stocking it will at first do considerable digging near the walls.
The remaining portion of the wall (that lying near the shore) should be driven in the ground for about one foot, as minks will not dig under water.
The principal food of minks comes from water, fish, frogs, crayfish.
It is large enough to raise two hundredminks if they are properly fed and cared for.
And as winter deepened, the quality of minks taken from the traps became darker, silkier, crisper, almost brown black in some of the young, but for light fur on the under lip.
For the little first-year minks wear dark coats, almost as fine as Russian sable.
This stretcher is particularly [Page 274] adapted to the skins of muskrats, minks and animals of a like size.
Minks have their regular beaten paths, and often visit certain hollow logs in their runways.
All I c'n do is to show ye the p'int where the minks is most like to travel to-night.
Here Tolly Tip pointed out little footprints made he said by the minks on the preceding night.
It seems that minks have a perfect scorn for wintry weather around here, Tolly says, and are on the job right along, no matter how it storms.
Meantime, the Minks found that the game had been expelled with the enemy, and they suffered greatly from hunger.
The old Minks were delighted to see her; but the sisters laughed and sneered at Sturgeon, and despised their sister for being willing to accept such a husband.
When all the Minks and the Otters and the Coons and the Muskrats saw them coming, they gave a great shout, for Grandfather Frog is sometimes called the oracle of the Smiling Pool.
All the Coons and all the Minks must search along the banks of the Laughing Brook, and all the Muskrats and all the Otters must search along the banks of the Smiling Pool.
You see, he did not know anything about the busy day the Minks and the Otters and the Muskrats and the Coons had spent the day before.
Why, all the Minks and the Coons and the Otters and the Muskrats, who live and play around the Smiling Pool and the Laughing Brook, were hunting for traps.
Adult minks are almost untamable, but young ones readily submit to handling, and are easily domesticated.
Those who own a breeding stock of minks ask high prices for them; but trappers represent to us that it is an easy matter to get the wild young ones.
The time to secure young minks is in May and June, when they begin to run with their dams.
Minks are unsociable, petulant, vicious in play, savage in war.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
