THE BADGER.
[To TIM EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Ever since the "Pied Piper" classed "the toad and mole and newt" among "creatures that do people harm," I suppose animals have been libelled with impunity. I wish to protest against the badger being classed with other pests of the countryside in the article on Foxes in your issue of Nov. 9th. I am reminded of it by reading in to-day's Daily Mail (re Hedgehogs): "It is only when the numbers are excessive that any English animal is out of place in the economy of the country." The Spectator is generally all in favour of rare
and persecuted creatures.—I am, Sir, &c., E. Mmues.
[We apologize to all badgers, levant and couchant, within the realm. They are brave and good beasts. We certainly ought not to have called them pests.—En. Spectator.]
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