THE BADGER 



to her healthy appetite. When out walking 



in the country, where she always readily 



followed me, she would unearth rats, moles, 



and young rabbits, which she could scent at 



the bottom of their holes. In spite of her 



thorough domesticity, I never succeeded in 



overcoming her antipathy to dogs, and more 



especially to cats, which she chased most 



viciously did they dare to enter the kitchen 



where she reigned as queen ; and where, 



such was her sensitiveness to cold, she had 



made her bed against the wall in the chimney 



corner. Here in winter, buried in her furs, 



she slept curled up for whole clays together. 



But which of us is without a fault ? A little 



greedy without being actually voracious, 



sweet Grisette sometimes ventured on to the 



stone-work of the cooking-stove, and from 



there was able to discover from which of 



the saucepans was exhaled the most savoury 



odour, and never did she make a mistake on 



that score ! " 



Du Fouilloux states in his Vcncric : — "Je 



ay veu aux blereaux prendre deuant moy 



les petis cochons de laict, lesquelz ilz tray- 



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