Where other trav'lers, fraught with terror, roam, Lo! Bruce in Wonder-land is quite at home.

I had a good run playing horses in my mind / Left my heart out somewhere running

Least weasels kill prey much larger than themselves. … Least weasels kill small prey, such as voles, with a bite to the skull's occipital region or neck to disarticulate cervical vertebrae. … Least weasels do not dig dens, but nests in abandoned burrows of other species, such as moles or rats, in crevices among tree roots, hollow logs, or stone walls.

Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.