. In nature's workshop [microform]. Sciences de la vie; Natural history; Life sciences; Sciences naturelles. Animal and Vegetable Hedgehogs 143 The common English hedgehog (shown in No. 1 in two characteristic attitudes) makes a good example of the prickly-urmoured class with which to begin the exammation of this interesting series. Every- body is tolerably familiar with the hedgehog's appearance —a squat, square, inquisitive little creature, one of nature's low comedians, %,ith very. NO, I.—HEDGEHOGS, ROLLED AND UNROLLED. short legs and no tail to speak of, but c- cred on his back and upper s
. In nature's workshop [microform]. Sciences de la vie; Natural history; Life sciences; Sciences naturelles. Animal and Vegetable Hedgehogs 143 The common English hedgehog (shown in No. 1 in two characteristic attitudes) makes a good example of the prickly-urmoured class with which to begin the exammation of this interesting series. Every- body is tolerably familiar with the hedgehog's appearance —a squat, square, inquisitive little creature, one of nature's low comedians, %,ith very. NO, I.—HEDGEHOGS, ROLLED AND UNROLLED. short legs and no tail to speak of, but c- cred on his back and upper surface with dirty white spines, which merge more or less into indefinite blackness! But if he is comic to us, he is serious to himself. Slow and sedate in all his movements, your hedge- hog seldom does anything so undignified as to run : to say the truth, he is a poor racer ; he is not built for haste, bat strolls calmly along on his bandy legs if J. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Allen, Grant, 1848-1899. Toronto : W. Briggs
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