Pond Life 
I could realize what had happened, 
scolding and using very bad language, 
as if it had been my fault. That is the 
only time I ever saw a squirrel come to 
grief or have any accident. I have seen 
one hanging head downwards only hold- 
ing on with its hind feet, while it held a 
nut with its fore feet, and deliberately 
ate it, and this was on the top of a big 
LECe: 
A stoat is not a pond animal, but all 
the same it is one you are quite likely to 
see on its banks. I remember to have 
several times seen one in such a situation 
when looking out for other things. 
On one occasion, a stoat poked its nose 
out of arabbit-hole just opposite me, and 
having found it tenantless, ran into 
another hole and vanished. If you ever 
see a stoat or weasel you can quite easily 
