1 OCTOBER 1921, Page 15

BADGERS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

SLR.—Apropos of the correspondence during August about badgers, perhaps the following newspaper cutting from the Western Daily Mercury may interest you, showing, as it does, that the animal is inconveniently " plentiful " and rapacious in some parts. If your correspondent " W. Noyle " and the brothers he alluded to still retain their desire to study badger life perhaps they will communicate with Mr. Thomas Roskilly. According to " W. Noyle," his brothers procured their badger solely for baiting purposes; but I happen to know that this was far from being the case, and that, on the contrary, they cheerfully endorse your comment of " Well dime, badger ! "