Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     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 the brood and seized one of the chicks. The plucky little girl grasped the chicken and vainly endeavored to release it from the fatal jaws of its ravenous enemy. Bereft, in its eagerness for blood, of fear, the weasel held on, resisting all the efforts made to shake him off. Determined not to be beaten in the contest, the young miss then seized the weasel by the nape of the neck and ran to the house, a distance of some 200 feet, making her appearance in the the dining room, where the family were seated at breakfast, with it firmly clutched in her grasp, her hands bleeding from repeated applications of its teeth and claws. Here the family dog was called in, but the weasel fastened its jaws into the upper lip of his dogship, who with howls of pain, wildly ran about the room. The distress of the dog, a great household pet, again put the little girl upon her mettle, and seizing the weasel she choked him off the dog, but only to cause him to fasten his teeth in her thumb, which he bit through and through. Though the pain must necessarily have been great, the child uttered no cry of distress, but patiently awaited until the grip of the weasel had been released by his being choked. The animal was then killed.