Show THE ARMADILLO AS A DIGGER In a War Tug With a Boy the tIo Ani mat mal Won Out In Quite Easy Manner One day I was standing on a mound when an armadillo bolted from his earth and running to the very spot where I was standing began vigorously digging to escape by burying bur himself In ID the soil Neither men nor dogs dog had seen him and I af ot once determined to capture him unaided led by anyone and Imagined it- it would It-would prove pro a very easy task Accordingly I laid lain hold of his black hone cased toll tall with both hands hanels and began tugging to get him off the ground round hut but couldn't move him lie He went vent on digging furiously getting d deeper deper epel anti and deeper Into the tile earth anI and andI I I I soon found that Instead of at me pulling pull lag ing him out he was pulling me tue In after after af at af- af ter him It hurt my small boy pride to think that an animal no bigger than a cat cot was going gning to heat me me In a trial tria of at strength and this made me hold on more tenaciously than ever and tug and strain more violently until not to lose him I had to go flat on the ground But It was all nil for nothing First m my hands then my aching arms arras were carried down Into the lie earth and andI 1 I was forced to release my hold and get up to rid myself m of the mound he had been throwing up Into my face and all over my head neck and ders From From Far Away and Long Ago by W. W H. H Hodson |