ITS EXISTING HAUNTS 53 



Yetholm, and are not so uncommon as might 

 be supposed from the scanty notices in print. 

 Badgers are by no means exterminated in the 

 Borders ; they have probably held their own for 

 the last twenty years without any perceptible 

 increase. Their chief haunt is the Cheviots.' 



For obvious reasons it would be unwise to 

 define more particularly the existing haunts of 

 this interesting animal. Is it too much to hope 

 that those who are in a position to do so will 

 exert their authority and instruct their keepers 

 and foresters to leave the few remaining repre- 

 sentatives of this ancient British race in peace ? 



