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potation produced all its effects he tottered; then Ml mi lii- -i'l- ; he was drunk in the full 

 MOM : tin- word, !'! JM OOQid ii"t 0NB ' Id ''} thfl |NUd ^ uM 'li-n pull l.nn about. 

 <IM-II his mouth, twit.h his whisk- : ,\:is unresisting. There was a strange expres- 



sion in his f;ic.- of tluii .xclf-contidence which we see in cowards when inspired by drinking. 



\Ve put him away, ami in some twelve hours afterwards found liiin running about, and, as 

 was predicted, quit*- tain.-, his -pines lying so smoothly :m-l regularly that he .ul(| be stroked 

 down the bark and handled freely. We turned him into tin- kitchen to kill cockroaches, and 

 know nothing further of him." 



Tin- home of the Hedgehog is made in some retired and well-protected spot, such as a 

 crevice in nH-ky ground, or under tin- stones of some old ruin. It greatly affects hollow tree*, 

 wherever the decayed wood permits it to tin.) an easy entrain . a.nl riot unfreqtiently is found 

 coiled up in a warm nest which it bus made under the huge gnarled roots of some old tree, 

 where the rains have wa.sh.-d awa\ the .-airth and left the roots projecting occasionally from 

 the ground. Beside these legitimate habitations, the Hedgehog is frequently found to intrude 

 itself ujxm the homes of other animals, and has U-en often raptured within rabbit burrows. 

 1'erhajH it may be led to these localities by the double motive of obtaining shelterfrom weather 

 and enemies and of making prey of an occasional young rabbit. 



In its retreat the Hedgehog usually passes the winter in that semi-animate condition 

 which is known by the name of hibernation. It, however, lays up no stores, nor, indeed, could 

 it do so, for, as has already \*i-i\ mentioned, its food is almost entirely of an animal nature. 



The hib.-niaiii.n of the Hedgehog has lately been denied, because Hedgehogs are occasion- 

 ally found at large during the winter months. Yet this is no proof to the contrary, for it has 

 already U-en noticed that the bears are occasionally in the habit of roaming about during the 

 winter, instead of lying motionless in theii den.x. as is the general custom, yet no one denies 

 the hibernation of the l>ear in consequence. The subject of hilx-rnatioii ha.-> U-en most elab- 

 orately worked out by Dr. Marshall Hall, who has published the result of his . \|..-riment.s 

 in "Todd's Cyclopaedia of Anatomy," and has made many curious observations on the 

 hibernating qualities of the animal which is now under consideration. 



In this able dissertation, Dr. Hall warns observers against confounding together the torpor 

 which is produced by excessive cold and that ]>eruliar torpid state which is railed hJbcawttn. 

 Indeed, it is always found that although a Hedgehog, or other hibernating animal, will ]>ass 

 into its semi-animate condition at a moderately low temperature, it will be roused at once by 

 severe cold, and will not again resume its lethargy until the temperature be somewhat moder- 

 ated. " All hibernating animals," he observes, "avoid exposure to extreme cold. They seek 

 some secure retreat, make themselves nests or houses, or congregate in dusters, and if the 

 season prove unusually severe, or if their retreat be not well chosen, and they be exposed in 

 consequence to excessive cold, many become benumbed, stiff, and die." 



Those who experiment upon so delicate a subject as hibernation must bear this in mind, 

 and remember also that the least disquieting of the animal will injure the condition under 

 which it sustains its torpidity, even though it should lie of so slight a nature as touching the 

 table on which it is placed, or walking with a heavy step at ross the room. One ex]M-i im<-nt-r. 

 who thought that intense rold was the cause of the torpidity, surrounded a hilteniating Hedge* 

 hog with a freezing mixture, in the hope of plunging the animal into a more profound sleep. 

 The result, however, was entirely different from his expectation, for the excess of cold first 

 awoke the sleeping animal and afterwards froze it to death. 



If the sleeping H.-direhoi: l>e touched, or otherwise disturbed, it rouses itself from its 

 lethargy, walks about a little, takes some food, if there should be any at hand, and soon 

 returns to its somnolent condition. 



ALTHOUGH unable to contract itself into a ball, after the manner of the true Hedgehogs, 

 the TANREC, or MADAGASCAR HKDGEHOO, as it is sometimes called, is closely allied to them 

 animals, and in many respects bears some resemblance to them. 



In size, this animal is about the equal of the European Hedgehog, but is rather more 

 elongated in its form, and furnished with longer legs, so that when it walks it does not carry 



