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When the ermine is pursued by a larger animal and it comes to a puddle of mud, it will die before it will soil its coat. Wouldn't it be wonderful if you and all the girls who are your friends would be as careful of your characters and never, no never, do that which would soil them?"
To case skin an animal such as ermine, fox, fisher, lynx, marten, mink, otter, muskrat, rabbit, or skunk, the skin is cut down the inner side of each hind leg until the two cuts meet just under the tail, and then the pelt is peeled off by turning it inside out.
"Well, I am sure he never will," said Fanny, almost petulantly; "I know I shall hate her, that's all." Ermine thought her own charity towards Mrs. Colin Keith much more dubious than Lady Temple's, but she continued "At any rate you will be so very kind as not to let any one know of it. I am glad you do. I should not feel it right that you should not, but it is different with others." "Thank you.
"Aunt Ermine says I must learn to manage, because some day I shall have to take care of papa." "Yes," with his eyes on Ermine all the while, "learn to be a useful woman; who knows if we shan't all depend on you by-and-by?" "Oh do let me be useful to you," cried Rose; "I could hem all your handkerchiefs, and make you a kettle-holder."
'Would it not be a charitable act to give that aged man a comfortable warm cloak? 'Undoubtedly it would, said Thomas a Becket, 'and you do well, Sir, to think of such Christian duties. 'Come! cried the King, 'then give him your cloak! It was made of rich crimson trimmed with ermine.
The carpet was thick, soft, and almost as white as ermine, with a tangled vine of golden water-lilies and broad, green leaves running over it, as if the water they grew in had been crusted with snow, and the blossoms, soft, fresh, and bright, frozen upon the surface.
Antoinette is foolish in forming such an acquaintance, it must be admitted; but, in matters of honour, she is as delicate as an ermine in tending the whiteness of her robe; if there be in M. Larinski's past a stain no larger than a ten-sou piece, she will forever discard him. Let me act; be wise, do not blow out any one's brains.
And if he were ever to turn his mind to any one else " "He will never do that, I am sure." "There is no knowing. He has never been, in his own estimation, disengaged from me," said Ermine; "his brother is bent on his marrying, and he ought to be perfectly free to do so, and not under the disadvantage that any report of this affair would be to him."
Necklaces of beads and animals' teeth hung in many strands upon the breast of his deerskin shirt. Leggings and moccasins were a mass of beads, feathers, and porcupines' quills woven in intricately fantastic designs. And, over all, there hung in graceful folds an ermine robe of spotless white. This was the great chief of the Dacotahs.
French soldiers were at the same game in one village I passed, where the snow-fight was fast and furious, and some of our officers led an attack upon old comrades with the craft of trappers and an expert knowledge of enfilade fire. The white peace did not last long. The ermine mantle on the battlefield was stained by scarlet patches as soon as men could see to fight again.
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