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These laughed and jested after their kind, encouraging the youths to fight it out, and naming Laurence the brock or badger from his stoutness, and the slim Sholto the whitterick or, as one might say, weasel. "At him, Whitterick grip him! Grip him! Now you have him at the pinch! Well pulled, Brock! 'Tis a certainty for Brock good Brock! Well done well done! Ah, would you? Hands off that dagger!
Benjamin said that he could never keep awake to watch it; and Solomon complained that he couldn't see well in the daytime. But all the rest of the company were in the best of spirits, giggling slyly whenever they looked at Grumpy Weasel, who seemed to pay scant heed to his neighbors, though you may be sure his roving black eyes took in everything that was going on.
'Get ready, all of you! Then the Chief Weasel for it was he began in a high, squeaky voice 'Toad he went a-pleasuring Gaily down the street The Badger drew himself up, took a firm grip of his stick with both paws, glanced round at his comrades, and cried 'The hour is come! Follow me! And flung the door open wide. My! What a squealing and a squeaking and a screeching filled the air!
"We shall do well with Maikar in the bow, for he sees like a weasel, and is trustworthy," muttered the captain as he glanced uneasily over the stern, where the hungry waves were still hissing tumultuously after them, as if rendered furious by the delayed meal.
At these words Kapchack became as pale as death, and could not keep his perch upon the pollard, but fluttered down to the ground beside the weasel. He was so overcome that for a moment or two he could not speak. When he found breath, he turned to the weasel and asked him what he meant.
I expect we can git him easier, too, in the day-time than at night." For some reason Primus seemed to entertain a decidedly contrary opinion. Ketch a weasel asleep! De old man beard too long for dat." "Why, I can't see," said Basset, "what objections you can have if I take the risk.
As soon as one of the birds settled on the thistle, something sprang up as quick as lightning, and then disappeared with the bird; it was the weasel, who had thus successfully concealed himself. The same gentleman chased a weasel into a hollow tree, who carried something in her mouth. He applied smoke to the hole, and out she came again, carrying the same burden.
Jimmy Rabbit said that he thought so, too, but he supposed he'd better keep running a while longer, till Grumpy Weasel gave up. So off he hopped again. Everybody except Peter Mink laughed heartily when Grumpy Weasel came springing up the slope a little while later. "You may as well stop now. You've as good as lost already," Mr. Crow greeted him. "Whose race is this yours or mine?"
You know the tree-climber, dear, you have seen him in your orchard at home; he goes all round and round the trees, and listens at every chink, and so he learns almost all the secrets. He heard the weasel in the elm, and came at once and told me. Here is the timber, and there is the dragon-fly.
You will see a weasel holding a young rabbit in the window. Knock old Sherman up, and tell him, with my compliments, that I want Toby at once. You will bring Toby back in the cab with you." "A dog, I suppose." "Yes, a queer mongrel, with a most amazing power of scent. I would rather have Toby's help than that of the whole detective force of London."
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