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In at least one instance I have good proof of this. 

 A friend of mine dug out an old pair and removed 

 them to quite a strange neighbourhood, where they 

 were wanted for the purpose of making earths for 

 Foxes. They were not put down together, but in 

 big Rabbit earths about eight miles apart. Three 

 years later the same pair were dug out ten miles 

 from where either of them had been turned down. 

 They were in an earth that had been occupied by 

 Badgers for many years, and they had probably 

 turned the old tenants out. They were known to 

 be the same pair as recognisable marks had been 

 placed upon the bodies of both animals. 



On another occasion a pair were dug out, which 

 were handed over to the local ratcatcher on the 

 condition that he would not dispose of them in the 

 neighbourhood with a chance of them getting back 

 to their old quarters again. For security during 

 the first night he hung them up in a sack in his 

 cottage, which was of the old wattle and dab type. 

 The next morning to his surprise they had got out 

 of the sack and scratched a hole clean through 

 the wall of his cottage and escaped. Eighteen 

 months hence a pair were dug out which answered 

 exactly in weight and appearance to the escaped 

 animals, and it was believed at the time that these 

 were the same animals, although there was no 

 particular marks to go by. 



As regards the weight of the Badger, few wild 



