Sometimes he thinks they change into wild cats, and then a nail grows on the end of their tails; but these wild cats are not the same as the marten cats, who have been always in the woods.

Of course the presence of the Indians made game scarce, but the mill men told us if we would go up farther into the marten country they thought we would do well.

He pulled out from the bottom of his father's bed three fine marten-skins, shook them, and dangled them before the Shamán.

The Boy had dropped behind to look at some marten tracks in the fresh-fallen snow.

We now began to make marten traps or dead-falls, and set them for this small game.

But just as Smirre was waiting to hear the geese's death-rattle, he saw the marten tumble from branch to branchand plump into the river so the water splashed high.