covered by leaves, safe from cows which may have smelled them out.
If I am sharp-set, for I do not refuse the Blue-Pearmain, I fill my
pockets on each side; and as I retrace my steps in the frosty eve,
being perhaps four or five miles from home, I eat one first from
this side, and then from that, to keep my balance.

I learn from Topsell's Gesner, whose authority appears to be
Albertus, that the following is the way in which the hedgehog
collects and carries home his apples. He says: "His meat is apples,
worms, or grapes: when he findeth apples or grapes on the earth, he
rolleth himself upon them, until he have filled all his prickles,
and then carrieth them home to his den, never bearing above one in
his mouth; and if it fortune that one of them fall off by the way,
he likewise shaketh off all the residue, and walloweth upon them
afresh, until they be all settled upon his back again. So, forth he
goeth, making a noise like a cart-wheel; and if he have any young
ones in his nest, they pull off his load wherewithal he is loaded,
eating thereof what they please, and laying up the residue for the
time to come."





THE "FROZEN-THAWED" APPLE.




Toward the end of November, though some of the sound ones are yet