Word: stoat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...startled passersby with pitchfork and stave, crying "Witches! Devils!" and accusing them of blowing poisonous vapors into his barn. At last the authorities ar rested Farmer Bading and turned him over to a hospital for observation. Bading proceeded to pass his psychiatric tests with flying colors. Sane as a stoat, said the examining doctor; he just happens to believe in witches: "So do many other people." Last week Farmer Bading was back on his farm, with a pitchfork and a stave or two handy, just in case...
...mild surprise. As well-versed Audubon fans know, the painter devoted his later years to an ambitious series entitled Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. But Audubon did not include his brown & white bull in Quadrupeds. Other four-legged creatures among the Hallstrom pictures are weasels, snow rabbits, a stoat...