60 FROM SPRING TO FALL. 



will go for anything that moves. Game-birds, again, 

 make short work of small reptiles, and they help to 

 thin them down in hot seasons. 



The hedgehog has been remarkably busy, at 

 night of course, in foraging for any creature he 

 can settle : not only that, but he and his spined 

 partner have had little pigs to provide for; and 

 early in the morning I have noticed their tracks 

 in the dust of the road, where father and mother 

 hedgehog and the little one have been all on the 

 root. They leave a very plain track; you may 

 note where they have crossed and recrossed the 

 road, always in the direction of spots where they 

 were certain to find some little "varmint" or 

 other. Their noses are remarkably keen ones : 

 the crawlers may have settled comfortably for the 

 night on a bed of dead leaves and moss, very full 

 of frogs, mouse, or lizard, as the case may be ; but 

 let that energetic pair of prickly wanderers nose 

 them out, and the forked tongue will never examine 

 anything with lightning-like rapidity again. Out 

 the creature is dragged, neck and tail, the long 

 fore-feet of the pair are placed on him to stop 

 all wriggling, and the body is passed through the 



