"May as well stick you up too," said Ben, as he took a glossy-skinned polecat from where he had thrown it that morning, after taking it from a trap.
"The Star-Gazers"
George Manville Fenn
The savant, for example, procured an animal evidently of the cat tribe, and another species like a polecat.
"Creation and Its Records"
B.H. Baden-Powell
He declares that a well-cooked polecat is as good to eat as a pig, and that stewed rattlesnake is not so bad as might be supposed.
"Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863"
Arthur J. L. (Lieut.-Col.) Fremantle