THE WEASEL ATTACK. 65 



ingly deep and formidable were the wounds, to be made by the 

 comparatively small teeth, short though sharp, of the weasel ; and 

 what was worse, they festered again and again, and gave the man 

 much pain and trouble ere they fully healed up and disappeared. 

 An old gamekeeper tells us that he once saw a fallow deer fawn, 

 upwards of six weeks old, killed by a weasel in one of the Callart 

 parks precisely as this hare was killed, and a fawn at that age will 

 weigh three times as much as a brown hare in ordinary condition. 

 In common with most people, we have rather a dislike to the 

 weasel, though one cannot but view with respect the courage and 

 pluck that carry him safely through such exploits as these. 



