CURIOUS CREATURES. in 



licking their young into shape, their building houses, 

 &c., &c., after which he discourses about the bear and 

 hedgehog, a story which has nothing to do with the 

 picture. It is described as " the Battail between the 

 Hedge-Hog, and the Bear." 



" Though the Urchin have sharp pointed prickles, 

 whereby he gathereth Apples to feed on, and these he 



hides in hollow Trees, molesting the Bear in his Den : 

 yet is he oppressed by the cunning and weight of the 

 Bear : namely when the Urchin roles himself up round 

 as a ball, that there is nothing but his prickles to come 

 at : yet with this means he cannot prevail against the 

 Bear, which opens him, to revenge the wrong he did 

 her in violating her Lodging. Nor can the Bear eat the 

 Hedge-Hog, it is such miserable poor and prickly meat. 

 Wherefore returning again into his Cave, he sleeps, and 

 grows fat, living by sucking his paw. 



" The Bears also fight against the Bores, but seldome 

 get the victory, because they can better defend themselves 

 with their Tusks, than the Bull or the Deer can by their 



