THE BADGER 



answer to the call like a dosT- It is an 

 amusing sight to see the badger along with 

 its master riding a bicycle. A short time 

 ago ]\Ir. Burge had a fox cub, which he 

 has succeeded in taming. This fox has 

 taken a great fancy to an Irish terrier, with 

 which she plays continually. The badger, 

 which is now about sevea months old, is 

 loose about the house at times, but generall)^ 

 spends most of its time in company with 

 the fox, to which it is greatlj- attached, all 

 sleeping snugh together." — G. W. Duckett, 

 Xorthleach, R.S.O., Gloucestershire. 



M. le Masson gives a pretty account of 

 his tame badger, which, though it loses much 

 in translation, I give in English. " I brought 

 up and kept for more than two years a 

 female badger, which died at last from obe- 

 sity. She had been taken from her mother 

 when only eight days old and suckled by 

 a Normandy bitch, which had already reared 

 me some wolf \vhelps. ' Grisette,' as she 

 was named, was, like all her kind, omnivorous ; 

 meat, beedes, fruits, certain kinds of vege- 

 tables, in fact, all and everything was welcome 



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