grunter

Stubbs crept in first, and Grunter followed exactly two feet behind, in approved badger fashion.

However, the badger is nothing if not persevering, and Stubbs and Grunter decided to make one last effort to oust the invader.

Grunter crept into the half-completed 'earth'; and Stubbs, after pausing to lick his sore pads, followed her.

Not a leaf stirred, but scent lay long on the warm air, and his nose told him that Grunter was down there before him.

At moonrise, however, Grunter woke, punctual as an alarum clock.