THE BADGER 



are satisfied if they can kill a few rats, and 

 think them wonderfully game if they will 

 tackle a cat ! 



From my boyhood I have had terriers, but 

 I never thought one worth keeping that could 

 not, or would not, go to ground and show 

 himself or herself worthy of their honourable 

 name. Appearance is nothing if the other 

 qualities are not present. I have had a little 

 wire-haired terrier bitch (with neat, golden- 

 tanned 'marked head), pretty and gentle, and 

 winning in all her ways, a companion that 

 slept on my bed each night, and looked the 

 picture of innocence lying by the hearth or 

 even on a lady's lap ; but within that bosom 

 beat a courageous little heart, in her head 

 throbbed a brain full of sagacious intelligence, 

 and in that soft brown eye lurked hidden fire. 

 She could give deep music long sustained, 

 and she never winced before the enemy. I 

 called her " Worry," a name that seemed most 

 mal a propos to her casual acquaintance. For 

 twelve long years she was at my side in all 

 the ups and downs of life, leading the drag 

 when I was at Cambridge, following fox- 

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