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Updated: May 20, 2025
"Where did you get that turnip?" "Joe Hanson giv' it me, sir. It's one of yours, and it's prime." "Joe has no business to give things away when father's out not to anybody." "Oh, I aren't anybody, Master Waller," said the man, with a grin. "I'm nobody, and don't count." "Well, look here; I don't want to know anything about any strange birds or polecats or owls or hawks or anything. I am busy now.
Look at the Mustela vison of North America, which has webbed feet and which resembles an otter in its fur, short legs, and form of tail; during summer this animal dives for and preys on fish, but during the long winter it leaves the frozen waters, and preys like other polecats on mice and land animals.
No, my boy, shout, sing to me without company; sing in solitude, if you can. . . . You give me that one yonder that sits and holds its tongue! Give me the quiet one! That one says nothing, so he thinks the more. . . ." Among the waggons of birds there are some full of other live creatures. Here you see hares, rabbits, hedgehogs, guinea-pigs, polecats. A hare sits sorrowfully nibbling the straw.
This animal is a member of the family Mustelidae which includes mink, otter, weasels, skunks, and ferrets, and with its brown body, deep yellow throat, and long tail is really very handsome. Polecats inhabit the Northern Hemisphere and are closely allied to the ferret which so often is domesticated and used in hunting rats and rabbits.
I'm letting you off on one condition that you break off with Singleton, and that you keep silent about the things we both know. If you confess to Ruth that you've been rustling cattle, or if you tell her or hint of it that I know you've been rustling I'll tear you apart! "You're like a lot of other damned, weak-kneed polecats.
"I'll tell you all about that another time," I said, "and you had better go upstairs as soon as you two have seen what sort of people are these cowardly burglars who sneak or break into the houses of respectable people at night, and rob and steal and ruin other people's property with no more conscience or human feeling than is possessed by the rats which steal your corn, or the polecats which kill your chickens."
Foxes and polecats prowled, owls hooted, and the big dog outside was a needful defender, even in summer time, and in winter the cold was piteous, the wet even worse, and they often lost some of their precious animals chickens died of cold, and once three lambs had been carried away in a sudden freshet.
"Because you can keep frogs, and jays, and polecats, and snakes, and anything, and they don't want to be fed." "What a nice cottage!" I said suddenly, as we came upon a red-brick, red-tiled place, nearly all over ivy. "Yes, that's Polly Hopley's and hi! there goes old Hopley."
The ermine is but little larger than the English ferret, while the sable and marten are the size of large polecats. When the Ostjaks came up with them they either knocked them on the head with a club or shot them through the head. They were then carefully skinned, the bodies being thrown to the dogs for food.
It was like opening a Christmas package as we walked up the trails, for each one held interesting possibilities and the mammals of the region were so varied that surprises were always in store for us. Besides civets and polecats, we caught mongooses, palm civets, and other carnivores. The small traps yielded a new Hylomys, several new rats, and an interesting shrew.
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