the moral of this story, however, is, firstly, that no one, however great he may be, should permit himself to jest at any one beneath him, even if he be only a hedgehog. and, secondly, it teaches, that when a man marries, he should take a wife in his own position, who looks just as he himself looks. so whosoever is a hedgehog let him see to it that his wife is a hedgehog also, and so forth.