THE SOUTH AFRICAN HEDGEHOG 



and ligaturing my wrist I made two incisions with 

 a lancet over the site of a puncture on the back 

 of a finger, and rubbed the cuts full of powdered 

 potash permanganate. Then, my destructive in- 

 stinct gripped me, and seizing a small rake I pushed 

 a mass of fern aside and disclosed, not a snake, but 

 a Hedgehog. 



