246 BADGER-HUNTING 



have seen a dog keep a dozen men dig- 

 ging for hours ; and when at last they 

 got to him, they found he was only bark- 

 ing out of the fulness of his heart, or 

 scratching and chewing roots to get up 

 a rabbit-hole. 



The scarcity of badgers, and the con- 

 sequent restriction of hunting - grounds, 

 has deprived the terrier in a great degree 

 of his vocation. As the name terrier 

 implies a dog adapted for "going to 

 earth," no dog that cannot go to ground 

 is properly a terrier ; and no terrier that 

 will not go to ground is worthy of his 

 name. It has always seemed to me a re- 

 proach to my native county that the beastly 

 little lap-dog called a Yorkshire terrier 

 should be so described, for though no 



