Beatrix Potter

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Presently there was a scuffling noise of falling stones; Kitty was all attention.
The noise moved further on.
Something poked out of a hole, and whisked in again.
After several false starts, Kitty's air-gun went off and there was a squeak.
She ran forward and met—not a mouse—but a large white ferret, rubbing its head, while another brown ferret in gaiters dropped off the top of the wall, and wrenched the precious air-gun out of Miss Kitty's hands, exclaiming, "Give us that there gun! You ain't fit to carry a gun! ”

“ Where?" asked Kitty. Her cat's eyes flashed; she had once seen a rabbit in the garden.
"In the wood behind Cheesebox's house; they want to borrow your air-gun, Miss Squintums," purred Winkiepeeps. "Cheesebox wouldn't give it to them."
"Certainly not," said Miss Catherine. Nevertheless, she and Winkiepeeps hurried away up the lane, towards Cheesebox's house.
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Cheesebox was a stout tortoise-shell cat who lived at the edge of the wood. I do not think Cheesebox herself ever went rabbiting ”

“ John Stoat-Ferret and his cousin Slimmy, being short-legged and in gaiters, went through a conveniently arranged tunnel under a wall, But they did not come out at the other side; they had walked into one of Mr. Tod's traps! ”