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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 23, 23 July 1864, Page 4

Evcotjntes with a Badger. — During the past week we have been shown a very fine full-grown specimen of the European badger (Meles taxus), wliich has been preserved by Mar. Canul, of Tiverton, in a most natural and life-like attitude. The animal was captured on the second instant, by -Thomas Warren, a young man in the employ of Mr. Walter Marley, in whose possession it still remains. As he and his master were driving home .on the day above mentioned, and had proceeded about half-way up the New-road, they observed the badger cross over in front of them, | dragging after him a vermin trap which appeared to inconvenience him but little. The young man leaped immediately from the cart and gave chase, and the animal finding himself pursued, quickened ■ his pace and led through a plantation thickly" overgrown with underwood, and almost inaccessible to his pursuer; the trap, which had only caught two of his long and powerful fore claws, was here .discarded, being considered undoubtedly a useless encumbrance; the hunter continued hotly in pursuit, armed with a Spanish clasp knife. At length the animal, after a.run of more than a mile, received a slight wound in the back, upon which he instancy stood at bay and appeared much irritated* uttering at the same time a succession of grunts ; resembling somewhat those of a pig. Keenly eyeing his assailant, he made a spring at , him, but was heroically repulsed ; this Ke repeated several ,,, times ; , with the] same result; at last, infuriated by the wounds lie had received, he •made a desperate - spring, - and -the -'young man missing his ahri," had his vest torn open; before 'tlie «.T«Trn>.l could repeafchis attempt, he received a stab on the^ihackjOf his wHcfr jpcrietrateft the cervical vertebrae, ahd- : * placed, Yw&hQfsyde, icomUdiV JEGs gailarit captor bore ;him in'Miimph fr^rtihe s<^ to weigh 28iba.~Tiverton Gazette^