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badger, and thoroughly game, reliable and 

 enduring. In order to illustrate these 

 methods of taking badgers, the following 

 description of a night hunt with terriers 

 will give a fair idea of the usual procedure, 

 and a successful day's trenching may prove 

 of interest in another chapter. 



On the south-eastern fringe of Dartmoor 

 there is a quaint little moorland village, and 

 situated due south of the village is a charm- 

 ing little shooting-box, perched on very high 

 ground in beautiful wild scenery, surrounded 

 by thickly-wooded goyles, with here and 

 there huge masses of grey rocks piled one on 

 the other in fantastic confusion. Among the 

 rocky boulders that lie scattered about this 

 neighbourhood in such profusion, a colony of 

 badgers have for years made their strong- 

 hold ; and in the deep and dark woods which 

 abound on either side of the goyles or valleys 

 they make their nightly excursions in search 



