title: A Badger's Tale
author:  Mike Tibbetts 
description: Mike Tibbetts is an English native and now resides in western Minnesota. He is a stay-at-home dad with his 3 children.
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  FOR FRANCIS WILLIAM OF ULVA
  
  
  
  
  
  – SOMEDAY!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Tale of  
  
  
  Mr. Tod
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ( 1912 )
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ![Image](../Images/mrtod-01-100.png)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I have made many books about well-behaved people. Now, for a change, I am
  going to make a story about two disagreeable people, called Tommy Brock and
  Mr. Tod.
  
  
  
  
  
  Nobody could call Mr. Tod “nice”. The rabbits could not bear him; they could
  smell him half a mile off. He was of a wandering habit and he had foxy
  whiskers; they never knew where he would be next.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ![Image](../Images/mrtod-02-100.png)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  One day he was living in a stick-house in the coppice, causing terror to the
  family of old Mr. Benjamin Bouncer. Next day he moved into a pollard willow
  near the lake, frightening the wild ducks and the water rats.
  
  
  
  
  
  In winter and early spring he might generally be found in an earth