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CHAPTER XVIII. HEDGEHOGS.
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Hedgehogs also lay up food for the winter; rolling themselves on apples as they lie on the ground, they pierce some with their quills1, and then take up another in the mouth, and so carry them into the hollows of trees. These animals also, when they conceal2 themselves in their holes, afford a sure sign that the wind is about to change from north-east to south. When they perceive the approach of the hunter, they draw in the head and feet, and all the lower part of the body, which is covered by a thin and defenceless down only, and then roll themselves up into the form of a ball, so that there is no way of taking hold of them but by their quills.
HEDGEHOG.—Erinaceus Europ?us.
They force it to unroll itself, by sprinkling warm water upon it, and then, suspended by one of its hind3 legs, it is left to die of hunger; for there is no other mode of destroying it, without doing injury to its skin. This animal is not, as many 101 of us imagine, entirely4 useless to man. If it were not for the quills which it produces, the soft fleece of the sheep would have been given in vain to mankind; for it is by means of its skin, that our woollen cloth is dressed. From the monopoly of this article, great frauds and great profits have resulted; there is no subject on which the senate has more frequently passed decrees, and there is not one of the Emperors, who has not received from the provinces complaints respecting it.
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quills
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| n.（刺猬或豪猪的）刺( quill的名词复数 )；羽毛管；翮；纡管 | |
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conceal
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| v.隐藏，隐瞒，隐蔽 | |
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hind
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| adj.后面的，后部的 | |
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entirely
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| ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地 | |
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