dog-ferret

Updated: June 15, 2025

"Like Wandering Hares at the theatre," said the landlord, who had been told by Dickie's aunt that the "ungrateful little warmint" had run away. "I see." "And 'e's a jolly little chap," said Beale, warming to his subject and forgetting his caution, "as knowing as a dog-ferret; and his patter enough to make a cat laugh, 'e is sometimes.

E. (Edith) Nesbit - Harding's luck