Animals: Ferreter

From England last week came a report by Ebenezer Griffiths, of Bangor, on an extraordinary afternoon's ferreting. Ferreter Griffiths said he had just put his ferret down a rabbit hole when, with a prodigious squealing, seven angry weasels emerged. Ferreter Griffiths said he escaped the weasels only by jumping over a wall. "I was afraid to go back for my ferret," he said. "I shall never see it again."

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