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they did a lot of hunting, several times running well, 

 and giving plenty of music. They worked round the 

 big wood twice, and when near the middle two 

 badgers were seen quite close together, one following 

 the other, and not far behind was old Waldmann, 

 throwing his tongue freely on their line. My friend 

 gave a view holloa that could be heard all up the 

 hillside, and soon afterwards these two badgers were 

 run to ground in a small earth. Waldmann got in 

 before he could be taken up, and 1 could not get 

 him out. I had particularly wanted to run a red 

 bitch that had not done much work. 



" We again dug a trench right across the line of 

 the earth beyond where we judged the badgers to 

 lie. To prevent them making a bolt we stopped 

 the earth behind the dog with a large stone, leaving 

 only a small hole to admit the air. We dug right 

 on to the nose of one badger, which itself was digging 

 as hard as it could, and had nearly buried himself, 

 still we got it. Then we cleared the earth out, 

 and in trying to get hold of the second with the 

 tongs caused it to make a drive at poor old 

 Waldmann, who was blocked in with the stone. 

 The dog received an ugly bite, but we soon had 

 our second badger in- the sack. 



11 I returned that night with only one damaged 

 dog, and three very successful ' dig-outs.' 



