. Our village. afterevery touch, as if her poor captive had been a red-hotcoal. Finding that these pats entirely failed in solvingthe riddle (for the hedgehog shammed dead, like thelamb the other day, and appeared entirely motionless),she gave him so spirited a nudge with her prettyblack nose, that she not only turned him over, but senthim rolling some little way along the turfy path,—anoperation which that sagacious quadruped endured withthe most perfect passiveness, the most admirable non-resistance. No w^onder that Mays discernment wasat fault, I myself, if I had not been aware of the trick
. Our village. afterevery touch, as if her poor captive had been a red-hotcoal. Finding that these pats entirely failed in solvingthe riddle (for the hedgehog shammed dead, like thelamb the other day, and appeared entirely motionless),she gave him so spirited a nudge with her prettyblack nose, that she not only turned him over, but senthim rolling some little way along the turfy path,—anoperation which that sagacious quadruped endured withthe most perfect passiveness, the most admirable non-resistance. No w^onder that Mays discernment wasat fault, I myself, if I had not been aware of the trick,should have said that the ugly rough thing which shewas trundling along, like a bowl or a cricket-ball, wasan inanimate substance, somethincr devoid of sensation THE WOOD and of will. At last my poor pet, thoroughly perplexedand tired out, fairly relinquished the contest, and came.
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