A Man Routed by Weasels.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1183, 26 September 1885, Page 6

A Man Routed by Weasels.

Dolos Laxtb, an Elk County farmer, has been annoyed greatly this winter by weaseh ia liis poultry yard and houses, the bloodthirsty little animals having killed his fowls by the score, and defied all efforts to trap them. On Saturday Mr. Lante was walking through a stony Held on his stenespile^rooiay'irthemillhie l^^^!^! had a walking stick, and, going to the stone pile, began to throw down Btones to got at the weasei or scare it out. Presently a woasel jumped out, and he struck at it with his can 9. It did not run away, but sprang at Lante's throat — the spot a weasel instinctively tries to seize. The farmer struck at it again and hit it, and, whether in answer to a signal or not the farmer does not know, weasels began to swarm out of the stono pile on all sides, and in a second were springing upon Lante, climbing nimbly up his clothes, trying to reach his face. They bit him with their sharp teeth, and finding that he would ba unable to keep the savago little blood-Buckers from fastening their teeth in his nenk without holp, he shook them off as best he could and started at the top of his speed for homo. The weasels followed him until he scaled the fence. His hands were bleeding from a dozen wounds, and if he had remained to fight the weasels they would undoubtedly have overpowered and killed him. In the afternoon Mr. Lante returned to the stone pile with two men, two guns and a dog. They routed out the weasels and tilled thirty — a colony which had been devastating tho entire neighborhood for a year or more. — (Olean N.Y.) Correspondence "Now York Sun."