Badgers 8 1 



a considerable amount of paint and patch- 

 work across his nose, he and the badger 

 having evidently been dovetailed. We 

 carried Trap, and started back to have 

 the mare put in, but en route Blarney and 

 Turk disappeared ; we heard them with 

 another badger close to the earth we had 

 stopped. We hurried up and found it was 

 a young one, about half-grown, which we 

 promptly rescued. This was probably the 

 one Turk and Trap took the line of when 

 the dogs divided, just before Blarney got 

 hold of the big one. Haying got the mare 

 in, dogs made comfortable, badgers safely 

 stowed away, and bade good old Tom 

 "Good-night" and " Au revoir" we started 

 homeward, well content. 



I may mention that six months after 

 capture the big badger effected his escape 

 from durance vile, but the really curious 

 incident was that the young badger became 



