So he walked right up to the doorstep where Digger the Badger was sitting.
Of course, some one told Digger the Badger what Reddy had said, and Digger told Old Man Coyote, who just grinned and said nothing.
Digger the Badger didn't say a word until Jimmy was through.
Digger the Badger was sitting on his doorstep, and he grinned when he saw Old Man Coyote coming.
The badger and the lynx had no better luck, and their heads ached for a long time afterward.
Among these were the otter, the beaver, the lynx, the badger and the wolverine.
If he were out purely for exercise, like the little badger when it goes rubbing the back of its head from post to post, there would be a buzzing of wings and shrill lonely callings to an unseen mate.
Certainly, with the private dealers of the North and West, badger is yearly becoming more important.
Little badger finds it fun to run round rubbing the back of his head on things; and here was nekik the otter at the favourite amusement of his kind--coasting down a snow bank.
Whether badger will ever grow in favour like musk-rat or 'coon, and play an important part in the returns of the fur exporters, is doubtful.
As the furious badger comes closer and closer on the cowering gophers, the little cowards lose heart, dart up the galleries to open doors, and try to escape through the grass of the prairie.
Ride after the badger across the prairie and he stretches out in long, lithe shape, resembling a baby cougar, turning at every pace or two to snap at your horse, then off again at a hulking scramble of astonishing speed.
Down in the bottom of the burrow, the badger may get half a dozen poor cooped huddling prisoners; but the coyote up on the prairie has devoured a whole colony.
There can be no reason for the badger doing this, unless it was his habit in the wilds when he trotted about leaving dumb signs on mud banks and brushwood by which others of his kind might know where to find him at stated times.
But no sooner is the badger hard at work than a gray form seems to rise out of the earth, a coyote who had been slinking to the rear all the while; and as the terrified gophers scurry here, scurry there, coyote's white teeth snap!
Consequently specimens of badger seen in the East must either be sheared of the long overhairs or left to mat and tangle on the first rainy day.
The fact remains that wherever the badger goes gopher-hunting on an unsettled prairie, there the coyote skulks reaping reward of all the badger's work.
Detailed to the Badger they took part in blockading duty off Cuba, where for several days the Badger was the flag ship.
The Badger is the only ship manned by Naval Militia that captured any prize, and the Jersey boys are very proud of their record, having captured three.
He saw the badger moving on the hillside, and watched the girl on her pony come over the crest from Putnam's, a slight figure black against the sky.
She had no desire whatever to see a fight between the badgerand Billy Bluff.
A kestrel hovered over the gorse, and she marked a badger on the hillside shuffling home before Man and his Dogs began the old rowdy-dowdy game once more.
Civilization, if it had given him much of which thebadger recked nothing, had also taken her toll of him.
Old Man Badgeron the hillside would never have dillied or dallied like that.
