Such a man as Colonel Bracebridge now, with the tongue of the serpent, who can charm any living soul he likes to his will, as a stoat charms a rabbit.

But no! Like poor Bunny chased by the dreaded Stoat, the Crab gave in as soon as the ogre flicked him with an arm.

Fetor N. fetor^; bad &c adj.. smell, bad odor; stench, stink; foul odor, malodor; empyreuma^; mustiness &c adj.; rancidity; foulness &c (uncleanness) 653. stoat, polecat, skunk; assafoetida^; fungus, garlic; stinkpot; fitchet^, fitchew^, fourmart^, peccary.

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.'

All the common beasts, such as cats, dogs, rats, stoats, and so on, have five ordinary toes.

Who loves to trap the wily stoat?

Sometimes, too, a moorhen will join the party; whilst two little wild ducks, the sole survivors of a brood of sixteen, which were attacked and killed by a stoat, will take food right out of the mouths of the good-natured old swans.

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.

Recently, when we were fishing, he pointed out a great stoat caught in one of these traps with a water-rat in its moutha very strange occurrence, for the trap was only a small one, of the usual rabbit size, and the rat was almost as big as the stoat.

Recently, when we were fishing, he pointed out a great stoat caught in one of these traps with a water-rat in its moutha very strange occurrence, for the trap was only a small one, of the usual rabbit size, and the rat was almost as big as the stoat.

There is so little room for the bodies of a stoat and a rat in one of these small iron traps that the betting must be at least a thousand to one against such an event happening.

The stoat, in chasing the rat along the pole, must have seized his prey at the very instant that the jaws of the trap snapped upon them both.

A large lobworm, however, as every one knows, is a very attractive bait for any kind of fresh-water fish except pike. 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.

How tame all wild animals become in the summer!all except the ones we want to circumventmagpies, jays, stoats, and such small deer.

'The white belly of a stoat,' he thought; and he walked on, wondering what its quest might be.

He fingered, he implored, he fawned with an unsteady eye, and while I wondered I saw behind him the puffy pink face of a fezzed Jew, watching him as a stoat watches a rabbit.

So one could imagine an elderly hare thumping wildly on a tambourine with the stoat behind him.

The rabbit, multiplying in millions, became a very terror to the sheep farmers, is even yet the subject of anxious care and inspection, and only slowly yields to fencing, poison, traps, dogs, guns, stoats, weasels, ferrets, cats, and a host of instruments of destruction.

Moreover, just as Vortigern had reason to regret that he had called in the Saxon to drive out the Picts and Scots, so the New Zealanders have already found the stoat and weasel but dubious blessings.

Kapiti, Rauparaha's stronghold, is just being reserved by the Government as an asylum for certain native birds, which stoats and weasels threaten to extirpate in the North Island.

And Lady Highford, as she read the news, clenched her pointed teeth, and gave a little squeal like a stoat.