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clever little terrier retreats a yard or so, out of 

 danger, and does not risk even a nip, but never 

 leaves his foe, never lets him make good his 

 retreat, and never ceases his baying signal to 

 the reinforcements that he knows are hurrying 

 to his support. 



Such a dog as this is a very highly trained 

 and valuable sporting dog of a particular variety. 

 He is full of courage, but also well supplied with 

 discretion. He knows that it is not his business 

 to get his jaw bitten off by a much more powerful 

 animal than himself, but that he is also a dis- 

 graced dog if he ever leaves his foe, even though 

 he is down in the dark bowels of the earth, with 

 eyes and mouth full of sand, until the welcome 

 daylight breaks in upon him and he hears his 

 master's voice. His job is done then. It has 

 probably taken him two hours. He has shown 

 them the badger. The young dogs who are 

 being educated at the quarry, the hard bitten 

 dogs that cannot get into the earths, may do 

 the rest for all he cares. 



You may dig a dozen badgers to such a dog 

 as this, if you can get him, and it will be very 

 exceptional to find a single cut on him. But 

 you could not have done without him. 



It is always best to use little short -legged 

 terriers, of a good hunting, but not a fighting 



