STOATES AND WEASLES.

Oxford Observer, Volume V, Issue V, 5 May 1894, Page 3

STOATES AND WEASLES.

One of these interesting little creatures has been brought to our Office and although graceful in form and apparently cleanly in it's habits we should not from a phrenological point of view think of adopting it as a pet. From his general contour we should say ( although we are not naturalists ) he is particularly agile and elastic and could slip his little body through anything from a bridge cylender to a wedding ring. - His sharke like mouth proclaims him to be carnivorous and we are informed that his particular predictions are chicken wards. As we predicted long ago when our preceding paternal Government under presure from the squatter members introduced the stoats and weasels they would become an unmittigated curse. They are now fairly/ amongst us, not here and there an isolated one but in colonies. This- interesting little creature here, is one of a family of six, captured by Mr Me " Gra'th, would to heaven he had the power of exterminating the lot. The rabbit pest is nothing to what the stoat and weasei pest will shortly be, ducks and chickens young turkies, and fat lambs will disappear as. if by magic and the .gorse and broom grown river beds Will be a shelter from which they cannot be driven. Ay and by the small birds nuisance will sink into insignificance -alongside the enroad of these squatiteir's pestsand Road boards -will offer Ttheboys a premium on their -heads. ■