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carpet wHicli fall in his ■way. These are faults intolerable in 

 the sight of tidy house-wives ; but somehow Peter has grown to 

 be a necessary evil, for he keeps the house free from vermin, 

 and is therefore quite worth the trouble he gives." 



Animals of the hedgehog species are found ia other parts 

 of the world besides Britain. In Asiatic Bussia the long- 

 eared hedgehog is found. This is smaller than that with which 

 we are familiar, and its ears are curiously broad and long, and 

 give to the creature's head an even more piggish appearance 

 than that borne by the common hedgehog. The prickly cover- 

 ing of the Bussian animal does not extend over the body, as 

 with the British, but rather sits on it like a load of quills 

 hanging over the rump and sides. Then there is the Mada- 

 gascar hedgehog, or Tamec. Its body is well covered with 

 spines ; its food, as with the British species, consists of worms, 

 insects, reptiles, &o. ; it hybernates Hke the common hedgehog ; 

 yet in many respects it is different. It cannot roll itself into 

 a ball ; its snout and legs are very much longer in comparison, 

 and it has no tail. It possesses a powerfol odour of musk, 

 but is as much esteemed as an article of food among the natives 

 of Madagascar as is our common hedgehog among the skulkers 

 in pur own woods and forests. 



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