WEASELS 



within a few minutes' walk of the house, and get 

 baclc with it while it was still warm. Cutting off 

 its head, I tried to push it through the door of 

 the cage, which, however, proved a little too 

 small. But my weasel showed not the slightest 

 hesitation about coming to my assistance, but, 

 seizing it wherever she could most conveniently, 

 she tugged and shook it until, between us, we 

 managed to get it through. 



Then after dragging it to the middle of the 

 cage she returned to lap up the blood spilled 

 near the entrance ; after which she drank that 

 which nearly filled one of the ears as it lay with 

 the concave side uppermost ; then she turned her 

 attention to the large veins of the neck, appear- 

 ing to suck them dry before turning away. 



By the time she had carefully licked off all 

 the scattered drops from the rabbit's fur, and 

 tasted a little of the spinal-cord where it projected 

 from the vertebrae of the neck, she seemed to 

 have pretty well satisfied her hunger, though 



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