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Show COULD NOT HOLD ARMADILLO Writer Admits Underestimating the Strength of Little Animal Ho Was Trying to Capture. When lie was a small boy, W. H. . Hudson, the nutlior of "Far Away and Long Ago," came to grief while lie was attempting single-handed to capture cap-ture an armadillo. One (lay, he says, 1 was standing on the mound at the Bid? of n moat, some 40 yurds from . where men were nt work, when tin .armadillo bolted from his earth ami, running to the very spot where I was, standing, began vigorously digging to bury himself In the soil. Neither men nor dogs had seen him, ami 1 at once determined to capture him unaided by anyone. I Imagined that it would prove to be a very easy task. Accordingly, laid hold of his black, bone-cased tail with both hands and began tugging to get him off the ground, hut could not move him. He went on digging furiously, and getting deeper and deeper into the earth, and I soon found that instead of my pulling pull-ing him out he was pulling me in after liira. It hint my pride to think that tn animal no larger than a cat was beating me in a trial of strength, and I held on more tenaciously than ever .and tugged and strained more violently, violent-ly, until not to lose him I had to go down flat on the ground. But it was all for nothing. First my hands and then my aching arms were carried down into the earth, and I was forced to release my hold and get up to rid myself of the mold that he had been throwing up into my face and all over my head, neck and shoulders. Touth's Companion. |