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Show BADGER A FINE EXCAVATOfl. A a Olgyor of Farth tha l.lttla Animal Takee High Hank. A writer on miitital history bna tha following to nay of lunli;,-ra: "In hard winter weather tho I, a, leer Una much In I La earth, hibernating, for long port-oda, port-oda, much nftcr 1,'m f.ishlun of tlx buar, and lci,nm: lil, that animal, with ono paw in It mouth. At tlila oaaon tha l nit c1.h,' tip tha niotitb f Ita den and almntior away Ha tlma for ninny data, oven wt-cka togethor, tn nillilur wnathor It vontnroa forth again In aoarch of food. In tha buil-aoaa buil-aoaa of dittoing tlio ba ilor la one of Uio flneitt exiKinonta In tho world, mak Inf Ita way iin.l, ruroninl. evon amid the itreatuat obatacl. a, with a atrooglh, aelerlty and poriuvoraiico that are truly niarroloua. 1 Imvo alwaya regard re-gard M the annlvarl;, tlio ant eater of boutb Africa, aa Ilia champion dlRRor of the anliunl kliiKdnin, bavlua: boon wltneaa of eome of hln rxplulta; but tha badiEur tnkca a v'.-y bii'.U plnce In the art uf aollliiR utolt-r around. " |