Show THE ARMADILLO AS A DIGGER in n a tug of war with a boy the an mal won out in quito quit easy manner one day I 1 was stand standing ng on a mound when an armadillo bolted from his bis earth and running to the very spot where I 1 was standing began vigorously digging to escape by burying himself himself in ID the soil neither men nor dogs had seer seen him and I 1 at once determined to capture him unaided by anyone and imagined it would prove a very easy task accordingly I 1 laid hold of his black bone cased tall with both hands and began tugging to get him off the ground but move him lie ile went on digging furiously getting deeper and deeper into the earth ond and I 1 soon found that instead of me pulling him out he was pulling me in after him it hurt my small boy pride to think that an animal no bigger than a cat was going to heat beat me in a trial of strength and this made me hold on more tenaciously than ever and tug and strain more violently until not to lose him I 1 had to go flat on the ground but it was till all tor for nothing first my hands then my aching arms were carried down into the earth and I 1 was forced to release my hold and get up to rid trip self of the mound he had bad been throwing up into my face and all over my head neck and shoulders from far away and long lon ago by W H hodson |