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A Weasel’s Stratagem.

Saturday, September 18, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, October 30, 1875

     An exchange gives the following account of a weasel’s stratagem, with the suspicious remark that it is vouched for by a friend. A grist-mill was infested with large rats, until a weasel came there and destroyed nearly all of them. There was, however, one large rat which he could not conquer. They had several […]

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A Child Catches A Weasel.

Saturday, September 18, 2010
Published in the Waukegan Gazette, Waukegan, Illinois on Saturday, September 15, 1877

     The Newburg Journal of Saturday tells the following story of adventure, the little heroine being a young miss of some twelve years, daughter of a farmer residing near the village of Mount Hope: “While she was engaged feeding a hen and chickens, at an early hour this morning, a weasel made its appearance among […]

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Weasel Kills infant Child.

Saturday, September 18, 2010
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, June 27, 1902

     A weasel came into the house of William Woodard at Pleasantville, Ind., and climbed upon the bed where the infant child of Woodard was sleeping with its mother. The weasel bit the child in the hand and sucked away the little one’s blood. The child died.

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