THE BADGER 



forward, downward, or upward with extra- 

 ordinary rapidity. It is true you may have 

 many terriers, but he has an advantage over 

 your forces. Only one of your dogs can 

 engage at a time, and the badger has the 

 advantage of weight, size, knowledge of the 

 ground, and familiarity with the dark — in fact, 

 in every respect except those of courage and 

 endurance, which in some terriers may equal 

 his own. The other method, less sure, 

 depends on taking the badger off his guard, 

 and is more in the character of an ambuscade 

 under cover of night. When the badgers 

 are away from home you block up their 

 earths, placing sacks with running nooses in 

 the mouth, in the most frequented holes. 

 Station one of your party near the "set," and 

 you may either take a small pack of hounds 

 and draw the country for a few miles round, 

 and hunt him like a fox, getting a run across 

 country and a fine cry ; or you may beat the 

 neighbouring coverts with men and dogs 

 of any description that are trained to hunt 

 the badger. 



In the following, taken from an article 

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