THE BADGER 



it. The length of time he will hold on to 

 the limb of an enemy is certainly fearful, and 

 the way in which his thick strong canines 

 go through the bone. On one occasion, in 

 Wales, a keeper residing near the place I was 

 staying at thought he saw the badger's tail 

 at the end of a badger-digging, and laid 



Fig. 6. Skull — side view. 



hold of it to draw him. He had made a 

 terrible mistake, and had got hold of a hind- 

 foot. The badger held him by the wrist 

 for ten minutes with his arm stretched up 

 the hole ; when he let go his hold the hand 

 was hanging by a few shreds, and had, of 

 course, to be amputated. I have always 



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