"... The Hedgehog hibernates in winter; rolling himself up in some grassy hedge bottom, with leaves, grass, and moss, he seems to sleep winter unconsciously away. ... the Hedgehog destroys a very troublesome weed, viz., the , beneath which it burrows, and devours the root upwards to the leaves, than which there could hardly be devised a more certain method of extirpation ..."
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