Show THE ARMADILLO AS A DIGGER In itt a Tug War With a Boy the tho Ani AnU i mal mat Won Out In Quite j Easy M Manner One day day I was stan standing on a mount moun when nen an arm armadillo d IJo bolted from bl his earth and running to the very veri spot j where I 1 was standing began vigorously digging to escape by burying himself i In the soil oil Neither men nor dogs hail seed him hire him I and end I at ni once determined d to capture capture- j i i him unaided b by anyone and Imagined It would prove a a very ea easy y task j j Accordingly I laid hold of ot hi his black I bone co cased bone sed tall with both hands an sn anft beJ began n tUg tugging t to get him off the J ground but couldn't move him hirn l lit lie e- e I went on digging petting getting J j deeper and nd deeper Into the earth ant and I soon soon found t that nt Instead of me pullIng pulling pull- pull I In Ing him out he was pulling me In ID after at af- j 3 ter him It hurt my small boy pride to thInk hint i that an animal no no bigger than af rat cat I Iwas was going to beat heat me trie In a trial of or r f strength and this made m me hol hold nn na l more tenaciously than thon tu iii lug I 1 and strain more until not t to 1 1 lose hIm I had had to to go Oa fiat on n the the- I ground But It was n nil all JJ for nothing First then my ac aching orm arms arms' were carried down Into th the earth earth eath aatI anit II i iI I was forced forred to rf release h a e my I hold oid an ael get up to rid rs myself lt lf of the mo mound nd he f had been een throwing up Into my iny facan face fac an and all over my head hend neck and nd shoulders ho l- l ders From From Far A and Lon Away way Ag Ago by W W. W H. H Hodson P |