CH. III.] BADGER WHITE FOX. 177 



A large Badger, which had been caught in a 

 covert overhanging one of the cliffs in the Isle of 

 Wight the only one, by the way, that I ever heard 

 of wild there was given to a gentleman, who took 

 a fancy to, and wished to tame him. He kept him 

 for some time, but then, finding him troublesome, 

 determined on putting him out of the way, to 

 effect which he gave him, in milk, a large quantity 

 of prussic acid, or what was sold to him as such 

 by a chemist. To his great astonishment however, 

 the badger not only lapped it up freely, without 

 appearing to be at all the worse for it, but seemed 

 rather to like it than otherwise, and he was 

 obliged to resort to some other less doubtful mea- 

 sures for the poor beast's execution. 



A milk-white dog Fox was during last autumn 

 (1859) taken up alive before the Isle of Wight 

 hounds. Although the run had been a good one, 

 and they ran into him in the open, yet, strange to 

 say, when they came up with him, doubtless in 

 consequence of his unusual appearance, not a 

 hound would touch him, and he was taken up out 

 of the midst of them perfectly uninjured. He 

 was conveyed to the stables of the master of the 

 hounds, where, a suitable residence having been 

 organized for him, he still remains in very flou- 



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