Show COULD NOT HOLD ARMADILLO writer admit admits underestimating the strength of little animal he H was W trying to capture M hen he h m as a beall boy W IL hudson the author of I 1 I 1 nr ur away and long ago came to grief while he h As attempting single handed to capture an armadillo one day he sas I 1 as standing on the tile mound at thu the elde tilde of a moat some 40 yards from birc men were at vork ork when an amia dillo bolted from his earth and loj ua to the very rot prot m where here I 1 was ass standing began vigorously digging tt to bury himself in the eoll moll neither roen men nor dogs had seen bini him and I 1 at once determined to capture him hila unaided by anyone I 1 imagined that it prove to be a very easy task accordingly laid hold of hi his block black bone aneed tall with both handi i and began tugging to get him off the ground but could not rooe moe him he ile went ment en on digging illg eing furiously and getting deeper and deeper into the earth and I 1 boon soon found that instead of my pull ing him out he was ass pulling putting me in after him it hurt my pride to think that an n animal DO no larger than it cat was ara beating me in a trial of strength tk and I 1 hed bettl on an more tenaciously than ever end and tugged and trained strained more inore violent ly until not to loae lose him 1 I had to so go down flirt flat on the ground round hut but it wai vas all for nothing first my hands and then my aching arms were carried down into the earth and I 1 was vi forced to release my hold and get up to rid myself of tho the mold that lie had been throwing up into my face and 11 all II oyer my head neck and shoulders eh youths companion |