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And there, indisputably, were the porcupines, bothering her all the time, with unheard-of impudence. Weasels, indeed! "'Twa'n't you I was after," she muttered obstinately, apostrophizing the now motionless form in the rain-barrel. "It was them dratted porkypines, as comes after my aigs. But ye're a bad lot, too, an' I'm right glad to have got ye where ye won't be up to no mischief."
It was like the cruelties of the woods that one regrets, but can not prevent the rabbits chased by the weasels, the pheasants killed by the foxes, the thrushes destroyed by the hawks. Any doubt that remained in the mind of Dale was soon dissipated.
As it is not the direct result of extremes of heat or cold that produces sleep, neither is the awakening from hibernation directly caused by a rise of temperature. In experiments made upon weasels, which are sometimes caught asleep, one came to life in about three hours, during which the temperature of the room remained the same as it had been during the entire hibernation, viz., 10 deg. Cent.
The Ferret is not indigenous to the country, but has been introduced from Africa, and is trained, as is well-known, for the pursuit of the rabbit which it can follow into the very innermost recesses of its burrow. The English species of weasels are also common to other countries of Europe and Asia.
I. A word then, first, about the covering wing. Now, the main idea in this image is, as I have suggested, that of the expanded pinion, beneath the shelter of which the callow young lie, and are guarded. Whatever kites may be in the sky, whatever stoats and weasels may be in the hedges, the brood are safe there.
I liked him because he was so clever at getting snakes and hedgehogs and weasels. He always knew where to find lizards. But he's a cheat. You pay him, and then he says you didn't, and keeps on worrying you for more money. I'll never buy anything of him again." "That's what you always say, Tom," I replied, "and next time he has a good bird or anything, you buy it."
What is there in going a-fishing, I wonder, that seems to change even the leopard's spots, and that puts a new heart into the man who hies him away to the brook when buds are swelling? There is Keeonekh the otter. Before he turned fisherman he was probably fierce, cruel, bloodthirsty, with a vile smell about him, like all the other weasels.
The prince was also attended by two men, who were prepared to help him in any emergency: they had been chosen from among the landowners of the provinces of Warszawa and Ciechanow; they had shoulders like the trunks of oak trees. Sir de Lorche gazed at them with amazement. In the meanwhile, the princess and Danusia came out; both wore hoods made of the skins of white weasels.
I love the living that are above the earth; and how small a remnant they are in South America we know, and now yearly becoming more precious as it dwindles away. The pestiferous skunk is universal; and there are two quaint-looking weasels, intensely black in colour, and grey on the back and flat crown.
At least, let it not be your determination to expire here, exhausted for hours, days, and weeks, by frightful agonies of hunger and foulness, under the weight of those stones, alone in this cell, deserted, forgotten, annihilated, left as food for the rats and the weasels, gnawed by creatures of darkness while the world comes and goes, buys and sells, whilst carriages roll in the streets above your head.
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