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Soon he stuck his head in the tent, and his face told us something had happened even before he said: "Well, that's too bad." "What's too bad?" asked Hubbard anxiously. "Somebody's stole the trout we left in the canoe." "Who?" asked Hubbard and I together. "Otter or somebody maybe a marten."
Along the shores of sluggish streams, of lonely lakes and ponds, you may see the beaver, the muskrat, very rarely the otter, and sometimes an ugly little, long-bodied animal belonging to the marten family called the fisher. These are all interesting, each in its own way, and well worth hours of quiet observation.
It would be easy to go farther and show that among the leading Parliamentary statesmen there were gay and witty debauchees, that Harry Marten deserved the epithet with which Cromwell saluted him, that Pym succeeded to the regards of Stafford's bewitching mistress, that Warwick was truly, as Clarendon describes him, a profuse and generous profligate, tolerated by the Puritans for the sake of his earldom and his bounty, at a time when bounty was convenient and peers scarce.
He carries his rifle in his hand and his ax is stowed on the toboggan, for he never knows when a quick shot will get him a pelt or a day's food. Sometimes tilts are built along the path at the end of a day's journey, but if there is no tilt the cotton tent is pitched. In likely places traps are set for marten, mink or fox. Ice prevents trapping for the otter in winter, but they are often shot.
Hand it here. Sanidin be blowed! It's specular iron. Now I wonder why you should hit upon sanidin? Why?" He, too, did not pause for a reply. He turned his glance once more down the steep hill-side which they had climbed with a view to exploring some instructive exposure of the rock. Marten intended to utilize the site as a text for a lay sermon. Arrived on the spot they had sat down.
The next winter we built a line of camps up the Pelley river about sixty miles, and another line up the McMillian. October 10th we began to set traps for Marten, ermine and wolf. Here we learned that Marten were called Sable they are much larger and more valuable than the Marten of United States Of America.
Quonab studied the tracks and announced "a bad old black bear; he has rollicked round for mischief, upsetting things. But the venison he could not reach; that was a marten that ripped open the bag." "Then that tells what we should do; build a storehouse at the end of the shanty," said Rolf, adding, "it must be tight and it must be cool."
Who in the wide world would come from under the respectable Ortlieb roof, at this hour, to tell a stranger anything whatsoever concerning one of its daughters? Neither could have given him the right to regard her as his lady, and steal at night, like a marten, around the house which contained his dearest treasure.
Goodriche's story of Master Bennet?" Henry immediately got up, and showed his sister the picture, after which he sat down again and began to read the story in Emily's book. The History of the Orphan Boy "In a little flowery valley near Tenterden there lived once a certain farmer who had a wife and one little boy, whose name was Marten.
He is especially fond of Rabbit and Hare. He is so strong and savage that he can kill a Fox and often does. Bobby Coon is a good fighter and much bigger and heavier than Pekan, but he is no match for Pekan. "Probably all of you have guessed that being a true Marten, Pekan's coat is highly prized by the fur trappers. He hates the presence of man and with good cause.
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