hence his name of foulmart. letected by the scent which it in a sandy bank, and often 1, standing in a hedgerow, so und it, has some trouble in only abroad by night, and is so that, however clear a pree year, it is never safe from The poultry-yard attracts hicken taken by him is set

an idea, from his likeness their wheat ricks are the tereas, though no doubt the could, he is too bulky to eggs of game and poultry lecat.

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between the polecat and lescribed, from which it ts bushy black tail. In e stoat is represented in ently does not assume in ing necessary to produce to white. The black tip the white is as pure as In England, patches are generally met with, seldom found without ; indeed, in the north er than the exception. the belly being white e stoat is even more han the polecat, but, he hare when full of ey are wearied with