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bitten in the leg by a dachshund. In the excitement 

 of ' bagging ' he picked one of the dachshunds up 

 by the tail, flinging him under his arm, and was 

 stooping down and picking up another, when No. i 

 pinned him in the calf of the leg. Needless to say 

 he dropped the two dogs. 



" The biting for that day was not yet over, for, 

 when talking at lunch of taking the badger on the 

 bank of the Usk, the question was raised, could the 

 four dachshunds so hamper a badger in the open as 

 to enable him to be taken with the tongs ? Nothing 

 would satisfy the party but a trial, so the badger was 

 turned out in a very hilly field, when he made off up 

 hill, and from the way in which he bowled the dachs- 

 hunds over, I have no doubt he would have got 

 away, had not the big terrier been slipped. During 

 the process of getting hold of the badger, a terrier 

 puppy, about nine months, came up from the house, 

 and hearing a great deal of ' loo loo,' and not know- 

 ing quite what to do, quietly seized the man who 

 was energetically trying to get hold of the badger 

 with the tongs, and left his mark on him. 



" I have had many such days, of which the above 

 are fair examples, and from these results am quite 

 convinced that for digging out a fox or badger, 

 nothing can beat a properly entered dachshund." 



Although new breeds of dogs are being intro- 



