THE

WHASELS OF HOLM-WOOD.

CHAPTER I.

In a pleasant country where green meadows lay stretched by the
side of a broad river whose banks were lined with the pollard-
willow and tall poplar, there once dwelt a family of Weasels,
known, from their place of residence, as the Weasels of Holm-

wood.

Holm-wood was a little island covered with underwood, rushes,
and wild flowers. A few aged trees stood by its edge, bathing
their long arms in the stream, and in the hollow trunk of one of
these the Weasels lived.