[To rim Roma or rim " Sercrivon."] Flo,-1 count upon
your fairness and generosity to print the enclosed. There are mid to be only twenty-six wild animals left
which can fairly be called British.—I am, Sir, Lc., F. E. M.
"0 fie! Mr. Spectator, to discuss ' eating badgers.' You once opined that we are good and brave beasts' and worthy of all protection. Canon Vaughan, the well-known naturalist, has said of us: ' The badger is a very ancient, peaceable, and highly respectable creature, one of the largest and most interesting of wild animals in England.' Let there be no more painful talk,
please, of ' cooking hams.'—This from Baorams Boom". (After all, we cannot help hoping that badger hams, if any one Cries them, will prove unpleasant as food and valueless as a means of economy. Badgers arc good and brave beasts " and there are too few of them. May their hams remain their own! Edie Ochiltrce boasted that he rubbed shoulders with a bailie " wi' as little concern as an he were a brock," but probably lie wanted to eat one as little as the other.—En. Spectator.]
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