THE BADGER 



answer to the call like a clog. It is an 

 amusing- sight to see the badger along with 

 its master riding a bicycle. A short time 

 ago Mr. Burge had a fox cub, which he 

 has succeeded in taming. This fox has 

 taken a great fancy to an Irish terrier, with 

 which she plays continually. The badger, 

 which is now about seven months old, is 

 loose about the house at times, but generally 

 spends most of its time in company with 

 the fox, to which it is greatly attached, all 

 sleeping snugly together." G. W. Duckett, 

 Northleach, R.S.O., Gloucestershire. 



M. le Masson gives a pretty account of 

 his tame badger, which, though it loses much 

 in translation, I give in English. " I brought 

 up and kept for more than two years a 

 female badger, which died at last from obe- 

 sity. She had been taken from her mother 

 when only eight days old and suckled by 

 a Normandy bitch, which had already reared 

 me some wolf whelps. ' Grisette,' as she 

 was named, was, like all her kind, omnivorous; 

 meat, beetles, fruits, certain kinds of vege- 

 tables, in fact, all and everything was welcome 

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