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THE BADGER. 



has not a little to do with these gentry. One 

 can always tell whether or not a badger-warren 

 is occupied by the condition of the bedding that 

 litters the ground and carpets the entrance of 

 every earth the dry grass or bracken they use 

 being strewn everywhere about the warren and 



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Plan of Badger- Warren in New Forest, showing Runways, Earths (E), 

 Sunning-Nests, Sanitary Pits, &c. 



along the runways. During every night of activity, 

 which appears to be about one night in five, the 

 animals, having fed, spend the small hours raking 

 the old bedding out of the warrens and substi- 

 tuting new, dry material. A bed is never allowed 

 to become old and stale, and the huge dump- 

 heaps at the burrow-entrances will, if examined, 



