That • relentlessness and determination are" attributes of the stoat is pretty we'll known, but is .not given to many to be eye witnesses of the same. Such, however, was the fortune of a lady angler, a visitor to Ttotorua. She was busy casting for trout near the Rotoiti end of the Ohau Channel when she heard a great commotion among some wild ducks not far away. On looking closely, she saw that one duck had been gripped by a stoat, or weasel, which had fearlessly swam out and approached undetected, possibly under water, like a Tat. The stoat had his fil'l of the duck sucking its blood. Then another cause of the scarcity of game came along, a hawk; it espied the duck, swooped and carried it away to polish off what the stoat had left.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1641, 14 May 1925, Page 5
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