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Evening Star, Issue 15137, 19 March 1913, Page 9

DRAWING Tm feAiJGER. A good story is told of how Sir George Wbmbwell won a- bet by "drawing tike badger." lii the old days, when the cavalry regiments at York kept a badger in a barrel, a party of officers t£ld Sir George that their badger -was very' difficult to draw. "Oh," said Sir George, "I have a six-months-old puppy that I bet will draw him." The bet was made, and the following day Sir George appeared at the barracks, not with a sharp terrier, but a lanky and thin retriever pup, which was greeted with roars of laughter by the officers. Quite unperturbed by their mirth, Sir George turned to his man and *aid: "Put him in, John." John put the retriever in the barrel, not head first as was eipected, but tail first. The badger fastened on the tail, and the dog, rushing off, drew the badger with him, and was halfway across toe barrack souare before the officers real_ised how clftVttjft &» dascat fatf Wtt Ms bet.