DOI issue:
November 14, 1891
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17692#0250
230 PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. [November 14, 1891.
DRAWING THE BADGER.
{A Natural History Note.)
The Badger {Meles-Taxus) is ~at" once one of the most inoffensive I and "adorn a tale" (of laboured waggery). He might find the
and (in one sense) offensive of our few remaining British Carnivora. , subject as suggestive of sardonic chaff as American women and
He is described by Napier of Merchiston, in his Book of Nature j Republican institutions.
and of Man, as a " quiet nocturnal beast, but if much 'badgered' 1 What says the popular "Wood? He describes the Badger as
becoming obstinate, and fighting to the last, in which it is a type of ; " slow and clumsy in its actions," and as "rolling along so
a large class of Britons, who like to be let alone, but when ill used awkwardly that it may easily be mistaken for a young pig in
can fight." the dusk of the evening." Woe, however, to whomsoever does
That great new authority on Natural History, Mr. G. A. Henty take the creature for "a voung pig." "Being naturally as harni-
(author of Those Other Animals), should be able to tell us much , less an animal as can be imagined, it is a terrible antagonist
about the Badger. Therewith he would be able, in his own favourite when provoked to use the means of defence with which it is so well
fashion, to " point a moral " (against the Demogorgon Democracy), \ provided."
DRAWING THE BADGER.
{A Natural History Note.)
The Badger {Meles-Taxus) is ~at" once one of the most inoffensive I and "adorn a tale" (of laboured waggery). He might find the
and (in one sense) offensive of our few remaining British Carnivora. , subject as suggestive of sardonic chaff as American women and
He is described by Napier of Merchiston, in his Book of Nature j Republican institutions.
and of Man, as a " quiet nocturnal beast, but if much 'badgered' 1 What says the popular "Wood? He describes the Badger as
becoming obstinate, and fighting to the last, in which it is a type of ; " slow and clumsy in its actions," and as "rolling along so
a large class of Britons, who like to be let alone, but when ill used awkwardly that it may easily be mistaken for a young pig in
can fight." the dusk of the evening." Woe, however, to whomsoever does
That great new authority on Natural History, Mr. G. A. Henty take the creature for "a voung pig." "Being naturally as harni-
(author of Those Other Animals), should be able to tell us much , less an animal as can be imagined, it is a terrible antagonist
about the Badger. Therewith he would be able, in his own favourite when provoked to use the means of defence with which it is so well
fashion, to " point a moral " (against the Demogorgon Democracy), \ provided."