A Man Routed by Weasels.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 14 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

A Man Routed by Weasels.

Doi.Oß L vntf, an Elk County farmer, has been annoyed greatly thu winter by weasels in his ponltiyyaid and houses, tho bloodthirsty littlo animals hanng killod his fowli by the score, and defiod all eflorts to trap them. On Saturday Mr. Lanta wai walking through a itony Held on his farm, and he »aw a weasel ran into a big heap of stonos piled looicly in tho middle of tho field. He had & walking itick, and, going to tho itone pile, began to throw down itoncs to get at tho weasel or tcaro it ont. Presently a woaiel jumped out, and ho ltruck at it with nil ctno. It did not rnn away, but *pi»ng at Lante't throat— tho fpot a weaiel initinctiroly tnai to bozo. The farmor ■track at it again and hit it, and, whethor in answer to a signal or not the farmer doei not know, wcasols began to iwarm out of tho itono pile on all aidrs, and in a lecond it ere springing npon lianto, climbing nimbly up his clothes, trying to roach His face. They bit him with their •harp teeth, and finding that ho would be unablo to keep the savage littlo blood-duckeri from f-iitening their teeth in his neck without help, he shook thorn off as best ho could and itai ted at tho top of liii speed for horn». Tho weasels followod him until he scaled tho fence. Hit hands wore blooding from a dozon wounds, and if ho had remained to fight tho woasels they would undoubtedly hare orerpowoied and killed him. In tho aftornoon Mr. Lnnte returned to tho stone pile with two men, two guns and a dog. They routed ont the weasels and killed thirty— a colony which had been doyastatiug the entire neighborhood for a year or more. — (Olean N. V.) Correspondenco "New York Sun."