Note 1 — Chapter IV · THE LANGUEDOCIAN SCORPION: THE IMMUNITY OF LARVÆ
Bernard Miall translation
That the Hedgehog, the appointed exterminator of Vipers, should be endowed with the prerogatives essential to her calling is strictly logical. In the same way, the Bee-eater, the handsomest bird of Mediterranean provinces, crams his crop with impunity with live Wasps; in the same way, the Cuckoo suffers from no irritation when he fills his stomach with a barbed wire entanglement of stinging hairs from the Processionary Caterpillar.1 The function exercised will have it so.