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Updated: May 25, 2025

The long tubular nose of the echidna is the vital spot. This is guarded with such shrewdness and determination as to be impregnable. But the dog which pursues the proper tactics, and is wily and patient, sooner or later-regardless of the alleged poisonous spur seizes one of the hind legs, and the conflict quickly comes to an end.

E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield - Confessions of a Beachcomber