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comparatively short space of time. Nine 

 young fowls which he had placed together, 

 intending to take them to market the follow- 

 ing day, were killed and partly eaten by 

 badgers in one night. They always 

 managed to " clear out " before the farmer 

 could get a fair shot at them, till one Sunday 

 morning he saw one in the yard, close to 

 the poultry house, so seizing his gun and 

 loading as he ran, he took a short cut to the 

 place where he knew the badger would pass, 

 and shot him. This was several months 

 ago, and since then he has lost no more 

 fowls." 



"Another farmer at Lana, in the same 

 parish, hearing his fowls making a great row 

 early one morning, looked out of his window 

 and saw a badger. He got his gun and ran 

 out just in time to shoot the marauder in the 

 act of tearing a hen to pieces." 



" A woman called Elizabeth Box had lost 



