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" When we went to the stables for the dogs and 

 Saturday's badger, and had not very much time 

 for the train, we discovered our badger had got 

 out of the box, and was not to be found. A cast 

 round with the dogs and they marked him up the 

 chimney in the harness room ; he had reached a 

 ledge in the flue, and get him down we could not, so 

 had to leave him. He was ultimately taken and 

 sent on, and I believe helped to make several good 

 earths that are now used by foxes. 



" The following moon I took the same four 

 dachshunds into Warwickshire, where I had often 

 been with my terriers on former occasions ; but this 

 was the first introduction of the dachshunds. We 

 tried to run a badger into the nets, but were not 

 successful, though the dachshunds found one in the 

 meadows, and had some capital hunting before they 

 lost him. There were a lot of rabbits about here, 

 and I rather think they caused our hounds to run 

 riot a little. 



" After breakfast we had a walk round all the 

 likely places where the badgers might have gone, 

 taking a hardy-looking terrier with us, one, however, 

 too big to get to ground. About 10 a.m. the dachs- 

 hunds marked a badger in a nice little earth, and, 

 before lunch, we had him in a sack ; one man was 

 bitten in the thumb by the badger, and our host was 



