Exhibiting yet more baffling behaviour, the gauche gardener determines to press-gang a badger into an afternoon tea appointment.When the animal emerges above ground, but not quite up to Percy's fastidious standards of hygiene, he tries to force it to bathe. The bothered badger launches itself up a tree to get away from his single-minded host, but ultimately falls into the madman's clutches. As the mithered mustelid faces the prospect of yet more twittering about boiled eggs and toasted soldiers, being scapegoated for spreading TB and gassed to death by government agencies probably seems like a hopeless, distant dream. ( )