BEHIND THE VEIL IN BIRDLAND 



animals had scratched out of their burrows. I took a photograph 

 of a person sitting on one of these mounds to show the com- 

 parison, and he looked quite a small figure on the plate when I 

 went far enough away to include the whole of the mound. 



Unfortunately, in some parts of the country the cruel sport 

 of Badger-baiting is still indulged in, but it is nothing like so 

 common as it was once. 



The Badger makes a really delightful pet, and if brought up 

 from a cub, it will become almost as much attached to its master 

 as a dog. I heard of one that followed its mistress about 

 wherever she went, and as evening approached, the gambols and 

 playfulness of the little creature were delightful to watch. Even 

 when it grew to a good age, this habit never left it, and it 

 evidently thought that old age was not a time when play should 

 be abandoned a little example that human beings might do well 

 to follow. 



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