A resident of Wimborne, Dorset, recently saw something white moving among the short grass of a meadow. It was a stoat, snow white with the exception of the tip of its tail, which was black like that of an ermine. The stoat was running to and fro, but making its way towards some dry grass about 10 yards from the hedge; then a passing wagon frightened it, and it ran into the hedge and was not seen again. In hill country whore there is a great deal of snow, stoats do grow white in winter, like mountain hares, but it is rare to see one so far south as Dorset.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21981, 16 June 1933, Page 5
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110Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Daily Times, Issue 21981, 16 June 1933, Page 5
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