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Title: Little folks in feathers and fur, and others in neither
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: (Miller, Harriet (Mann) Mrs.), 1831- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Zoology
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Dustin, Gilman & co. Cincinnati, Ohio, Queen city publishing co. (etc., etc.)
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wray. That settled the matter of even a show of friendship, for neveragain did cat and Hedgehog lie together on the hearth. Hedgehogs are useful as food, cooked in various ways. Gypsiesand other wanderers in Europe have a curious way. The animal isrolled up in a thick layer of clay. The whole bundle is then put onthe fire and baked till the clay is hard and cracks. It is then takenoff, and broken open, when the skin comes off with the clay andMr. Hedgehog is ready for the table—or the fingers, more likely,Im afraid. The most curious use to which Hedgehogs are put, is inmedicine—or was long ago. One wise and grave writer gives direc-tions for making a wonderful eye salve, that would enable a person tosee as w7ell by night as by day. It was made by taking the righteye of a Hedgehog, frying it in oil, and keeping in a brass vessel fora long time. The fried eye imparts its virtues to the oil, and tothis day country people in England think his fat is good for deaf-ness. 48 LITTLE FOLKS
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STOR Y OF A WILD BABY. This is an interesting looking fellow creature—isnt it, now?Shall I introduce it ? My dear young friends, this is Orang-Utan, or otherwise, SimlaSatyrics, familiarly called Mias, and it is said—by some scientificgentlemen — to be the most like human beings of any of theanimal creation. The original of the picture was taken in Borneo, by an Englishnaturalist, and was three feet high, and was six and a half feetfrom one hand to the other. Its skin and bones, at present, occupya place of honor in a British Museum. So much for its biography. I want to tell you the story of acomical Mias baby, which Mr. Wallace saved alive when he sacri-ficed its mamma in the interests of science. The infant was abouta foot long, without a tooth, but with lungs of wonderful power,which it made use of to cry—like its cousins of the human race. IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 49 Like those helpless little creatures, it had great fondness forbeing held and petted, and would cry and fret wh

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