david visiting his folks with his two small children in tow took them to the barn horses he’d known all his life he patted badger’s nose badger bit him bit off the end of his ring finger right hand a plastic surgeon had to sew him up cover the stump it was most painful at dinner the other night the digit still in a conspicuous cast david’s mother-in -law said the irish have a way when things are bad of saying well they could be worse your bite could have been worse badger might have bitten off your middle finger

Jacqueline Jackson 2009