The routed Mice upon a day Fled from the Weasels in array; But in the hurry of the flight, What with their weakness and their fright Each scarce could get into his cave: Howe’er, at last their lives they save.
It was the owner of the field, who was coming on tiptoes to see if, by chance, he had caught the Weasels which had been eating his chickens.
As soon as the four Weasels had talked things over, they went straight to the chicken coop which stood close to the doghouse.
The poor Marionette was caught in a trap set there by a Farmer for some Weasels which came every night to steal his chickens.
He found out I was innocent when I caught theWeasels and he let me go.
Weasels also occasionally come down the hedge into the orchard for the various prey they find there; they visit the outhouses and sheds, too, at intervals in the cattle yards adjoining the house.
Then, if you watch by a gap in the hedge, or look through a gateway into the cornfield, you may be almost certain of seeing one at least; in a morning's walk in summer I have often seen two or three weasels in this way.
The northern weasels and northern hares of America both turn white in winter.
I saw in antique characters upon a mouldering board, "Licensed to sell weasels and jade earrings.
When he came to the door of wold-hut he would give the postman's knock as though he came on ordinary rounds to a house of every day, although no path led up to it, although the skins of weasels hung thickly from upper windows.
Then in one week four weasels were given me and a record of seven others obtained, all these are from nearby orange groves and from below town along the railroad track where for a long time I have known they occurred.
I had always been interested in weasels as to their occurrence and until this year had taken only one in town with a record of only two or three seen along the railroad track.
As bridge a narrow plank was set, On which, if truth must be confest, Two weasels scarce could go abreast.
The frightened weasels scurried, squeaking, from the cloak of their mistress, to hide beneath the table.
Of the weasels nothing was to be seen but a pair of fiery little eyes peering out from the folds of the cloak upon her bosom.
She was chanting to them in a tongue unknown to Olvir; and as she droned the refrain, the weasels ran up and down her extended arms.
A low hiss brought the weasels clustering about her neck, and she glided silently away into the gloom beyond the fire.
At the taunt, the witch flung back her cloak, exposing fully to the red firelight the ghastly adder mark upon her cheek and the weasels nestling in her bosom.
The Dormice fearing it might be some of the Weasels who spoke, were silent instantly, and then the Moles bade them come out.
A few aged trees stood by its edge, bathing their long arms in the stream, and in the hollow trunk of one of these the Weasels lived.
The other relations of the Weasels who were on visiting terms with them were, the Polecats of The Grange, who came but seldom, and the Martens of Forest-farm, with whom they were more intimate.
Weasels and ferrets are often kept on board of ships, and are petted by the sailors, for a ship with a weasel as passenger is always free from rats.
If taken very young, weaselsmay be tamed, and a whole army of cats will not free a house so quickly of rats and mice as will one little weasel.
My enemies are the stoats and the weasels that run along the hedgerows and kill rabbits and anything else they can get their teeth into.
The animal that could rob wild bees of their honey had nothing to fear from birds, and even the stoats, weasels and snakes that pursued birds' nests would not wait to argue their claims with Brock.
Indeed, in many of their instincts and ways, weasels are not very unlike cats, and one quality they have in common is their curiosity.
And you, you poor innocent, you have not been with the weasels six weeks when you think you will try your nose in tracking me.
The English species ofweasels are also common to other countries of Europe and Asia.
In truth, the civets are much nearer in resemblance to weasels than the otters are; and these two last are generally classed together--the otters being neither more nor less than water weasels.
Were they equal in size to lions and tigers, the human race would be in danger of total extirpation: for it is well-known that weasels are the most ferocious and bloodthirsty creatures upon the earth.
When surprised by the hunters and their dogs, it will battle furiously till life is extinct: all the while emitting a strong disagreeable smell, after the manner of the weasels and polecats.
Weasels love the old wall, mice hide beneath it, and from it in spring the hedgehog rolls, its spines covered with dead oak leaves.
These are tracked to a colony of weasels in the old wall.
Boulders had rolled from above, and among these dwelt weasels and ermines.
In the afternoon, regularly, weasels run along the old wall; and as these things the flowers in their times of opening and closing are not less constant.
Weasels also kill toads and frogs; and their mode of killing these, as well as of despatching birds, is by piercing the skull.
The Weasels were very fond of their own family, however, and would tell their best secrets to each other.
Then the four youngWeasels nudged each other and said, "There!
I rather think," said he to himself, "that there will be four very tired young Weasels sleeping in their burrows to-morrow.
He knew what gossips Weasels are, and he guessed that they were watching him, so he decided to give them something to think about.
Just as the Chipmunk was finishing his lunch, one of the Weasels whispered to the others to stop.
Then the Weasels would peep at him from a hiding-place and whisper together.
He knew that when four hungry Weasels were out hunting their supper, it was an excellent time to keep still.
When even the tip of his tail was hidden in the hole, the Weasels crawled from under the leaves and looked at each other.
Now it just happened that the Black-tailed Skunk had scented the Weasels and knew that they were near.
The Weasels hid themselves under some fallen leaves.
There was never a bit of loose earth around these homes, and that is the one secret which Weaselswill not tell out of the family--they never tell what they do with the earth they dig out.
They still slept through the days in the old hole, so they were together much of the time, but they did not hunt in parties, as Raccoons and Weasels do.
Every one lets Skunks alone, and it is well to letWeasels alone also, for although they are so small they bite badly.
The weasels raced from hole to hole and along the sides of the bank exactly like a pack of hounds, and seemed intensely excited.
So the pack of weasels darted forward, stopped, went from side to side, and then on a yard or two, and repeated the process.
Weasels frequently hunt in couples, and sometimes more than two will work together.
Near here the partridges roost on the ground; they like an open space far from hedges, afraid, perhaps, of weasels and rats.
Though ferreted and hunted down by the weasels the rats were not rooted out, but remained till the ash-heap was sifted and no fresh refuse deposited.
Stoats and weasels are common on the mound, or crossing the road to the corn; they seem more numerous in autumn, and I fear leveret and partridge are thinned by them.
These attacks are said usually to be made by a number of weasels acting in concert, and the motive would appear to be revenge for some injury done to one of their number.
All the small weasels that I have seen have proved on close inspection to be young ermines with thickly furred black-tipped tails; in the least weasel the tail is thinly covered with short hair and without any black whatever.
Judging from my own experience, I should say that this is the usual termination of any chance observations of either weasels or minks.
Still, these casualties among weasels are probably few and far between.
These ducklings always returned at night with their numbers more or less depleted, as they were the legitimate prey of skunks, minks, weasels and mud turtles; and if we reached the summer's end with sixty per cent.
Hawks do not trouble ducks, but rats, weasels and minks developed such a fondness for them as to completely atone for any neglect on their part.
Being assured that there were no weasels there—for rats and weasels never associate—he now thought he should be able to get a little sleep.
Through the broken windows the shrieks of terrified weasels escaping across the lawn were borne faintly to their ears; on the floor lay prostrate some dozen or so of the enemy, on whom the Mole was busily engaged in fitting handcuffs.
The weasels will trust entirely to their excellent sentinels.
Well might the terrifiedweasels dive under the tables and spring madly up at the windows!
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