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found dissertation. It is still an emblem of the poor world— pro- 
lific, famished, imbruted, without shelter from foreign oppression. 
Poor, oppressed races ! — pretty red-eyed rabbit, poor little In- 
dian pig, with streaked robe ; accept here the expression of the 
sympathies of a poor working man, who never reared you to have 
you cooked, and who will eternally preserve in his heart the re- 
membrance of those sweet distractions which you brought to his 
anguish when he pined in captivity for his natal greensward. 
CHAPTEE IV. 
BEASTS WHICH AEE HOT HUNTED. 
HEDGEHOG. 
Here is an ignoble beast — an emblem of the narrow conserv- 
ative, the obscurant, and parasite. The Hedghog symbolizes the 
mercantile scrub, the literary blackguard, the journalist without 
faith or law, who makes money out of every thing. 
As a general rule, all the enemies of progress are enemies of 
light, inhabiting dark abodes like the shrew-mouse, the mole, and 
the fox, and recognized by two physiognomical characters : the 
smallness of the eyes and the extraordinary development of the 
olfactive apparatus (nose). Like the scurvy writer of whom he 
is the emblem, and who can only sustain himself amid anarchy 
and confusion, the hedgehog delights in thick brushwood, crowd- 
ed with parasite vegetation. This antipathy for progress is be- 
trayed by the slowness of his step. He creeps rather than runs. 
It is the image of the hired rhetorician of the bank journal, who 
parades in his well-fed egotism, who bristles up at the first word 
of reform, a dangerous and absurd being, who will be crushed a 
thousand times over rather than advance one step. He is besides 
a bad sleeper, stuck over with epigrams thick as quills, and al- 
ways ready to sting. The beast is voracious, and repulsive in 
