[W]hy if you don't ſcamper, you'll be baſtil'd, before you can ſay, "Killarney." – i, pejy 43
And so saying he scampered off to the hill, to the amusement of honest Plat; and it is likely lost no time in making his advances to the young widow. – Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, I, London, William Harrison Ainsworth, pejy 198, 1828
The younger and lighter members of his tribe scampered to the higher branches of the great trees to escape his wrath; risking their lives upon branches that scarce supported their weight rather than face old Kerchak in one of his fits of uncontrolled anger.