WOODLAND CREATURES 



CHAPTER I 



THE BADGER A CREATURE OF 

 THE NIGHT 



WILD creatures belong either to the night 

 world or the day world, for those that 

 hunt by the light of the moon rarely 

 come out in the sunshine. It is among the 

 creatures of the dark that we find some of the 

 most interesting, also the shyest of wild animals, 

 and of all the timid beasts there is not one which 

 is more mysterious and elusive than the badger. 

 How many people have seen a wild one ? Not 

 many, for the animal seldom ventures to leave 

 its deep earth, situated in some lonely dingle 

 or great woodland, until night has really come, 

 and it is home again and far underground before 

 there is any hint of dawn in the eastern sky. 



The badger is one of the last of the larger wild 

 animals that exist in any numbers in the British 

 Isles. It is really wild, it lives on despite all that 

 mankind has done to destroy it. The red deer, 



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