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Updated: May 31, 2025
None came; the Stoat had missed a turn in the winding tunnel, and the flying Hackees reached the hollow tree in safety. Once there, it was easy to dive down another burrow and so baffle pursuit, but they were two very frightened Squirrels when at last they stopped for breath. By Lillian M. Gask
Stoat can't; and I can only because I know her as well as my own palm." The young earl made no answer and they rode on Malcolm nearer than his lordship liked. "I can't think, Florimel," he said, "why you should want that fellow about you again. He is not only very awkward, but insolent as well." "I should call it straightforward," returned Florimel. "My dear Lady Lossie!
He discovered the difference now, and for the next few minutes was not overjoyed at the knowledge. One cannot do much blood-sucking to weaken one's prey out of a scrawny leg that resembles a twig wrapped round with leather. And the stoat found this out, too, and he would have shifted his hold to the bird's body like a flash, if he had been given a chance, but he never was.
And then, the fire of judgment in her red-brown eyes, she swept out from the cave on the trail of her enemy. In three bounds she reached the stoat, who was perfectly prepared now to fight an elephant for possession of the half-rabbit he had found. The tiny creature did, as a fact, draw blood, with one slashing bite, from Desdemona's muzzle.
At least, it had multiplied itself half-a-dozen times in less than half-a-dozen seconds, and even a stoat, which the head belonged to, cannot be in two places at once though for sheer quickness of movement it, and far more its cousin the weasel, comes very near to it. Just at this moment it seemed that about the roost unhealthful thing he could do would be to be seen in the air.
A month ago thou satst under my roof, watching the flame burn down till the pin dropped and gave thee right to turn me out from my old home. And now this morning thou shalt watch that flame again, for I will give thee one inch more of candle, and when the pin drops, will put this thine own pistol to thy head, and kill thee with as little thought as I would kill a stoat or other vermin.
With most wild creatures, fear seems to be a feeling that quickly comes and quickly goes. But over some of Nature's weaklings, fear seems to throw a spell that remains long after the danger has passed; as, for instance, in the case of a rabbit hunted by a stoat, or of a vole pursued by a weasel.
The bat wheeled across him, and swerved at the suspicion of those rigid spears. The caterpillars betook themselves once more to feeding. The water-rat slipped quietly down the stream, she still feared the stoat. The squirrel ran openly down his tree-trunk, and secretly up the far side of it. The fear of the stoat was on him too.
The dogs truly found a cat two cats, and the guns stopped them, but one had a nice blue ribbon round his neck, and the other had kittens; the traps were found by one cat and that was the pet of the colonel's lady one stoat, one black "Pom" and that was the idol of the parson's daughter and one vixen and she was buried secretly and at night but Pharaoh remained where he had chosen to remain, and he remained also an enigma.
That Stoat you saw will perhaps be trapped this winter; his brownish coat will turn pure white when the snow comes, and he will be called an 'Ermine' instead of a 'Stoat'; and then the hunters will be after him." "Then the Ermine and the Stoat are the same creature?" cried Phil in amazement. "The very same," said Father Beaver, "and Ermine fur is more valuable than our own.
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