PART III 



THERE are several methods by which the 

 badger can be taken alive, or killed, with 

 ease. I am familiar with several successful 

 ways of trapping him. The reader, if he is 

 not aware of these, must not expect me to 

 enlighten him, as my object in writing is to 

 arouse an interest in his preservation, not to 

 facilitate his destruction. It may be as well to 

 state, however, that the inhuman engine, the 

 steel trap (by which so many of the birds and 

 beasts that frequented the wild woods of 

 England and Scotland have been extermin- 

 ated) is an instrument that arouses the 

 suspicion of a badger at once, and he is as 

 clever in avoiding it as an old-fashioned rat. 

 The badger if caught in a steel trap will 

 frequently bite his leg or foot clean off. In 

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