Identifier: encyclopaediaofs02suff (find matches)
Title: The encyclopaedia of sport
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898 Peek, Hedley Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918
Subjects: Horses Sports Games
Publisher: London : Lawrence and Bullen
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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s ;.whereas in a good double season a fair shotmay bag his thirty or forty brace in a day. Fred. \Vhish.\w. SPORT, OBSOLET E—BADGER BAITING—Many animals, the fox, for instance,,have to pay a price for their existence, andjust a century ago this is what the badgerhad to pay for his.— They dig a place in.the earth about a yard long, so that one end is.four feet deep. At this end a strong stake is-driven down. Then the badgers tail is split,a chain put through it, and fastened; to thestake with such ability that the badger cancome up to the other end of the place. The-dogs are brought and set upon the poor animal,who sometimes destroys several dogs before it is.killed.—This is a friendly description, andconveys but little idea of the barbarities actuallypractised. That the badger was not alone thevictim of this fiendish cruelty is evident fromthe concluding sentence of the above quotation.Often half-a-dozen do^s were maimed for life in-the contest, a jaw torn away being a commoft
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.^ ^ SPORT, obsolete! THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF SPORT 389 result. A glance at a badgers armed craniumsuggests a good deal in this connection, theinterlocking teeth—the holders, and theway in which the lower jaw is articulated withthe upper, explaining the hold which the badgeris able to take and keep. It may at once be stated that the olderbarbarous methods of badger baiting hadnothing in common with badger hunting proper,or digging the badger. If fairly pursued,this is a legitimate sport to every one concerned—including the badger. The method of hunt-ing him nowadays is to wait quietly until he has moonlight runs. Only those who have takenpart can appreciate the fun to bo derived fromrushing the brock back to his dark retreat. The above is one method of hunting.Badger digging proper is another. Here men,tools, and terriers are brought into requisition ;and the badger is fairly (always laboriously) dugout of his rocky fastness. One of a team ofreliable terriers marks the game—which h

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