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It was exactly what he would have liked to have done himself, if only he had thought of it first, and hadn't gone and overslept himself. 'Some of the stoats turned quite pink, continued the Mole, 'and the Sergeant in charge, he said to me, very short, he said, "Now run away, my good woman, run away! Don't keep my men idling and talking on their posts."
In various places along its course the river has long poles set across it; on these poles Tom Peregrine has placed traps for stoats, weasels, and other vermin.
"As many prelates in England, so many vipers in the bowels of Church and State." They were "the very polecats, stoats, weasels, and minivers in the warren of Church and State." They were "Antichrist's little toes."
But the stoats are busy they have not left, nor the weasels; and so eager are they that, though they hide in the fern at first, in a minute or two they come out again, and so get shot. Like the fields, which can only support a certain proportion of cattle, the forest, wide as it seems, can only maintain a certain number of deer.
But just let us once get past the stoats, with those detestable guns of theirs, and I assure you we shan't want any swords or pistols. We four, with our sticks, once we're inside the dining-hall, why, we shall clear the floor of all the lot of them in five minutes. I'd have done the whole thing by myself, only I didn't want to deprive you fellows of the fun!
Very warily he paddled up to the mouth of the creek, and was just passing under the bridge, when ... CRASH! A great stone, dropped from above, smashed through the bottom of the boat. It filled and sank, and Toad found himself struggling in deep water. Looking up, he saw two stoats leaning over the parapet of the bridge and watching him with great glee.
No, it won't, because there will be some moon to-night; and if it were dark it wouldn't matter. There's always something to hear, with the creatures in the forest hunting owls, and stoats, and all sorts of night things. Why, I can find my way anywhere nearly in the forest of a night. You don't know what fun it is till you get out there.
Stoats with reddish-brown backs and yellow bellies may often be seen hunting the rabbits, and the little weasels may sometimes be drawn out of their holes in the walls if one makes a squeaking noise with the lips. Stoats usually hunt singly, weasels in packs and pairs. But we must leave the woods, for the evening shadows are lengthening and the "golden evening brightens in the west."
Bob knew, directly he saw a bird's egg, whether it was a swallow's, or a tomtit's, or a yellow-hammer's; he found out all the wasps' nests, and could set all sort of traps; he could climb the trees like a squirrel, and had quite a magical power of detecting hedgehogs and stoats; and he had courage to do things that were rather naughty, such as making gaps in the hedgerows, throwing stones after the sheep, and killing a cat that was wandering incognito.
In the wall cases devoted to British vertebrate animals he will notice, first the Carnivorous Beasts, which include the foxes; stoats; cats; &c.: the Glirine Beasts, including rabbits; squirrels; hares; rats; and mice: the Hoofed Beasts, as the fallow deer; the stag; and the roebuck: and the Insectivorous Beasts, including moles; hedgehogs; &c.
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