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BADGER. 
Tlie Badger is a lazy, distrustful, solitary 
animal, that retires far from the approach 
of man, and digs a subterranean residence, 
where it spends at least three fourths of its 
existence, and never ventures forth but in 
search of food. The hole which it thus 
forms to itself, is often at a very great dis- 
tance from the surface of the earth ; and the 
pnssngc to it is always oblique and winding. 
The Badger is about as big ns a fox, but 
of a shorter and thicker body. His skin is 
hard and rugged ; his hair harsh and stub- 
born; his back is broad; his logs afe longer 
on tlie right side than on the left; his teeth 
m e prodigiously sharp ; and when he fights 
with a dog, he uses his teeth and nails, 
which are both very sharp. 
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