The weasel did not seem to be in any hurry at all.
The weasel leaped straight at its victim's throat.
You see, being so young and inexperienced, it never occurred to them that one fox or one weasel could make quite a lot of trails.
I fall a victim to this little man with weasel eyes, who hides in bushes?
And Babhru said: Nay, he was a little ugly man, with weasel eyes.
Then they saw Bill step back as the Weasel pitched forward.
The Weasel saw it at the same time, slowed to a rapid walk, but kept on for the pass, his eyes riveted malevolently on the youth who had suddenly arisen from behind a bowlder and started to meet him.
Below them Bill and the Weasel calmly advanced, neither hurried nor touching a gun.
Then the Weasel slowed down, crouching a little, and his swinging hands kept closer to his thighs.
The gateway, now free of cattle, lay open and the Weasel dashed for it in an attempt to gain the horses picketed on the other side.
In a week the Weasel found the really good grazing portions of his section feeding more cows than they could keep on feeding; but suddenly the numbers fell to the pastures' capacity, without adding a head to Bill's herd.
The Weasel had the eastern section, the wildest part of the ranch.
The sight sent the puncher running toward the pass, for the herd had begun to move toward that outlet, urged by the Weasel and his nervous companions.
The Weasel learned that most of Bill's cows preferred the river to the creek and crossed his section to get there.
The promised lesson was due--the lesson the Weasel had promised to give Bill on the draw.
When Red finally caught sight of him the Weasel was riding slowly toward the bunkhouse, buried in thought.
The weasel met him, and the fox related what had happened, and what he had done; and so the weasel went and did likewise.
He sent to ask, and he was told how the fox and the weasel had escaped through their wisdom.
But Little Weasel shouldered his way through the throng and went to his lodge, laughing bitterly.
Little Weasel has words to utter, but they are not song words nor dance words.
And Little Weasel leaped upon the pony, laughed a loud, unpleasant laugh, and urged it southward into the night.
Still the head of White Cloud was bowed, and Little Weasel laughed a strange laugh.
Then shall Little Weasel return and his deed shall be forgotten.
Little Weasel had not eaten, and hunger feeds anger.
The people bent forward, hushed, because there was something deeper than shadow in the face of Little Weasel as he turned his hawk’s gaze upon the bowed head of White Cloud.
But Little Weasel raised one trembling hand and commanded silence.
Little Weasel fitted a feathered arrow to his bow.
All night long Little Weasel wandered upon the hills, holding his grazing pony and looking down upon the starlit village of his people.
And I was frightened till I heard a voice that thundered, and it said: ‘Little Weasel has been punished by a foolish people.
Then Little Weasel collected a bunch of grass, lit it and rapidly set fire to the dry prairie.
Then when Little Weaselcame the fourth time to the opening in the circle of lodges, looking toward the place of sunrise, he saw one standing in the dark who held a pony by a thong.
Others are of opinion that the stoat[440] is meant, the smallest of the weasel tribe, and others again the polecat.
This character of the weasel is not, however, generally mentioned by naturalists.
Lady Percy says to Hotspur: "A weasel hath not such a deal of spleen As you are toss'd with.
To meet a weasel was formerly considered a bad omen.
The mere mention of Shadow the Weasel made him very sober.
Whitey wouldn't know it unless he moved, but Shadow the Weasel would find his tracks, and his nose would lead him straight there.
It had been a splendid place and one in which he had felt perfectly safe until Shadow the Weasel had appeared.
If he remained where he was very likely Shadow the Weasel would find him, and the result would be the same as if he were caught by Whitey the Owl.
He just had to get as far from Shadow the Weasel as he could.
It was better to be homeless than to feel that at any minute Shadow the Weasel might appear.
Shadow the Weasel never will think of climbing up this little tree to look at an old nest, and Shadow is the one I am most afraid of.
By and by he became so tired that not even the thought of Shadow the Weasel could make him go much farther.
Now if there is any one who can move more quickly than Shadow the Weasel I don't know who it is.
Every time he thought that he was so tired he must stop, he would think of Shadow the Weasel and then go on again.
Whitey the Snowy Owl had saved him from Shadow the Weasel and didn't know it.
It was just such a place as Shadow the Weaselwould be sure to visit should he happen along that way.
We'll start at once," replied Whitefoot, and for once he was glad that Shadow the Weasel was about.
You see Shadow the Weasel is the one enemy that can follow Whitefoot into most of his hiding-places.
There are Buster Bear and Billy Mink and Shadow the Weasel and Unc' Billy Possum and Hooty the Owl and all the members of the Hawk family, not to mention Blacky the Crow in times when other food is scarce.
Mr. Rat tried to fight, but he found that little Mr. Weasel was so slim and could move so quickly that he couldn't get hold of him.
Little Mr. Weasel said that he was not afraid of Mr. Rat, and he would go into all the holes and drive Mr. Rat out.
So Mr. Weasel went into hole after hole until at last he found Mr. Rat.
Another day quite by chance he happened to see Mr. Weasel slip into one of his smallest doorways, and then a great fear took hold of Grandfather Wood Mouse.
Only Sammy Jay, Blacky the Crow, Reddy Fox and Shadow the Weasel were unhappy, and of course no one cared for that.
Of course Blacky the Crow and Reddy Fox and Shadow the Weasel were angry, very angry indeed, for no one likes to be left out of a good time.
Shadow the Weasel felt just as uncomfortable as Reddy Fox, and Shadow is very short-tempered.
Shadow the Weasel and Reddy Fox, hiding in the hollow log, laughed until the tears rolled down their cheeks, though down in the heart of Shadow was bitter disappointment, for he had planned to steal those very eggs.
When old Mr. Toad, who had overheard Sammy Jay's plan, had told Peter Rabbit all about it, he had also told Peter that Reddy Fox and Shadow theWeasel were hiding in an old hollow log close by.
Pretty soon Shadow the Weasel joined Reddy Fox in the hollow log, and they whispered and chuckled while they waited.
Every one had thought this the best joke ever, for, of course, they all knew that Reddy Fox and Shadow the Weasel could not get out past the thousand little spears hidden in the long coat of Prickly Porky.
He had found out that all the little forest and meadow people but himself and his cousin, Blacky the Crow, and Reddy Fox and Shadow the Weasel had been invited, and that each was to bring something good to eat.
The ferocity of the weasel it shares, and the weasel's dauntless courage.
Silently as shadows they moved, silently as the lynx or the moose or the weasel goes through the softly parting undergrowth.
The colonel took the picture, and Weaselslipped up behind him and looked over his shoulder.
As Mr. Weasel concluded his dialogue with himself, Mr. Botayne and Millicent approached, in company with the colonel.
Weasel coot, a female or young male of the smew; -- so called from the resemblance of the head to that of a weasel.
River shrew, an aquatic West African insectivore (Potamogale velox) resembling a weasel in form and size, but having a large flattened and crested tail adapted for rapid swimming.
A small European carnivore of theWeasel family (Putorius foetidus).
A kind of fur, black at the top on a whitish ground, taken from the ferret or weasel of the same name.
A similar notion may explain the use of the skin of the agile and wise long-tailed weasel as a binding for hair braids.
He had a rattle with six or eight cocoons on a stick wrapped in weasel skin and humming bird feathers.
Killed and scalped by the rascally Damalali, Water Baby commands the waters of the area to rise until the weasel returns the scalp to avoid drowning.
The smallest variety of the weasel is found in northwestern Canada and Alaska and with it the black tip of the tail so characteristic of the weasel is missing.
The tracks of the weasel resemble those of the mink but are considerably smaller.
The track of the weasel is similar to that of the mink, but is smaller, but as the weasel is not a water animal, its tracks are more likely to be seen along the fences and where logs and rocks are plentiful.
There are various styles of rat traps on the market which make excellent weasel traps, but as one never knows what animal may happen along, I prefer to use the steel trap.
The skunk is an animal of the weasel family, and is found throughout the United States and the southern parts of Canada.
The weaselfrom many sections have a peculiar, sulphury yellow cast to the fur, especially on the hind-quarters, and of many of these stained skins only the black tip of the tail is of value.
Any trap will hold a weasel but when caught in the smaller sizes they quite often double up about the jaws and when they die and freeze in that position it is difficult to remove them from the trap.
The fisher belongs to the weasel family and is classed by naturalists among the martens, under the name of Pennant's Marten.
The mink is a small carnivorous animal, belonging to the weasel family.
As before mentioned the weasel is a blood-thirsty creature, and when it finds some food that is to its liking it can scarcely be driven away.
Although the skunk is a member of the great weasel family, its method of travel is decidedly different from that of the weasel, for it seldom lopes, but has a slow, measured walk.
Although a member of the weasel family, it does not travel by a series of jumps as does the weasel, mink, marten, etc.
That I may not appear to have said this without reason, I will add a Fable about the Weasel and the Mice.
Tis a choice spirit that has pried Where clean contrivance chose to hide; That this is not at random said, I shall produce upon this head A fable of an arch device, About the Weasel and the Mice.
The meeting of a weasel and a badger suggests a sporting interview," remarked Jervis.
There is an old saying as to catching a weasel asleep.
It isn't wery probable that the poor old weasel will have pluck enow to hold out much longer.
It would be a great pity and a wery useless crime if we was obleeged to knock the sinful old weasel on the head arter all: her corpse would fetch nothing at the surgeon's.
Although the weasel can hold him for a few yards, yet in a long swim the chipmunk will draw away so far from his pursuer that he will generally escape.
In a long-distance event the fox, the dog, and even the dogged, devilish little weasel can run him down.
A weasel running looks like a gigantic inch-worm that bounds instead of crawls.
At first, when the rabbit saw the weasel looping along its trail like a hunting snake, it had started off with a sprint that in a minute carried it out of sight.
And when theweasel came in sight again, the trail stopped as the rabbit crouched in the snow waiting for the end.
Many of them simply give up and wait for death when they find that a weaselis on their trail.
When theweasel saw the rabbit had stopped, its red eyes flamed, and with a flashing spring its teeth and claws were at poor bunny's throat.
One of the weird and unexplained facts in nature is the strange power that a weasel appears to have over all the smaller animals.
A moment later a weasel in its reddish summer coat came sniffing along the rat's trail and passed within a yard of him.
And sometime I see an ugly weasel run through my yard; and there is a foul, great cat sometimes in my barn, which I have no liking unto.
This cat was with her but a while, but the weasel and the toad came and offered their service.
The cat would kill kine, the weasel would kill horses, the toad would plague men in their bodies.
While he was thus engaged, and she was stoutly denying the accusation brought against her, a weasel or lobster suddenly made its appearance.
Well, after that Danny Fox went back to his den on the hillside and Mr. Wicked Weasel went home, but, of course, the May party was all over.
Old Danny Fox was one, and Mr. Wicked Weasel was two, and, let me see, who was number three?
And the clever way he escapes from his three enemies, Danny Fox, Mr. Wicked Weasel and Hungry Hawk will delight the youngsters.
When he saw Danny Fox and Mr. Wicked Weasel he didn't have to ask a single question.
Although the bank be tenanted by fifty other rabbits, past whose hiding-place the weasel must go, yet they scarcely take any notice.
The keeper looks upon weasel and stoat as bitter foes, to be ruthlessly exterminated with shot and gin.
The weasel follows, gliding up the bank with a motion not unlike that of the snake; for his body and neck are long and slender and his legs short.
At such times, eager for blood, theweasel will run right across your path, almost close enough to be kicked.
The thirst of the weasel for blood is insatiable, and it is curious to watch the persistency with which he will hunt down the particular rabbit he has singled out for destruction.
Both weasel and stoat, and especially the latter, will snap viciously at the dog that overtakes them, even when sore wounded, always aiming to fix their teeth in his nose, and fighting savagely to the last gasp.
Many social species are thus powerfully affected by cries of distress from one of their fellows; and some will attempt a rescue in the face of great danger--the weasel and the peccary for example.
Birds are not the only beings in this way related to the vizcachas: the fox and the weasel of the pampas live almost altogether in them.
Well, that time has come, but, who ever went to a shop and asked for a weasel tippet?
Trappers have succeeded in keeping the mink and marten in check, but the weasel goes his murderous way, feared and hated by everybody.
The weasel is a sort of peculiar shade of brown as you can testify if you have caught one; the ermine is pure white all but the tippest tip of the tail which is dead black; yet they are one and the same.
Well, wouldn't the weasel be surprised to find himself so popular.
If only we could set the weaselon the gopher and then had something like a mongoose to keep down the weasels!
