A hedgehog usually figures in the arms of the Harris, Harrison, Herries, and Herrison families, and is undoubtedly borne in allusion to their surname, _hérisson_ being the French for hedgehog. Lord Malmesbury--family name Harris--bears a hedgehog in his coat of arms. It is generally blazoned as an "urcheon" in heraldry. The hare occurs but rarely in English arms; the Clelands bear one as a single charge, and the Trussleys charge their shield with three little hares playing bagpipes, probably in allusion to the hare's traditional love of music. The rabbit--known to heralds as a coney--is oftener met with in armorial bearings; the Strodes of Devon bear three conies couchant; the Conesbies, three conies sejant; the Cunliffes, three conies courant. [Illustration: PLATE 5. BARON HAWKE. _Arms._--A chevron erminois between three pilgrim's staves purpure. _Crest._--A hawk, wings displayed and inverted ppr. belled and charged on the breast with a fleur de lys or. _Supporters._--Dexter, Neptune, Sinister, a Sea-horse. _Motto._--Strike.] Three moles are borne by Sir John Twistledon, of Dartford, Kent--a mole was sometimes blazoned "moldiwarp"--whilst the Rattons very aptly bear a rat. We cannot say much of the toads,[2] tortoises, serpents, grasshoppers, spiders, and snails which occur in heraldry. [Footnote 2: The legend which connects toads with the fleur-de-lys in the arms of France is too well known to need repetition here.] The Gandys of Suffolk bear a single tortoise passant, and a tortoise _erected_ occurs on the Coopers' coat of arms. Serpents are blazoned in terms peculiar to themselves. Thus, a serpent coiled, is said to be _nowed_--knotted--from the French _n[oe]ud_, a knot; when upright on its tail, it is _erect_; gliding, it is _glissant_ also from the French; when biting its tail, it is blazoned _embowed_. The Falconers bear a "serpent embowed"; one Natterley has an "adder nowed"--_natter_ is the German for adder--and Sir Thomas Couch of London charges an adder "curling and erect" upon his shield. To the Greek, the grasshopper signified nobility; hence amongst the Athenians a golden grasshopper worn in the hair was the badge of high lineage. In later days the heralds considered the grasshopper a type of patriotism, "because in whatever soil a grasshopper is bred, in that will he live and die." Spiders were not only held symbolical of industry, but they were highly esteemed for their supposed properties of healing.[3] [Footnote 3: As regards the spider's curative powers, Mr. Thistleton Dyer, in his "Folklore of Shakespeare," tells us that only "a few years ago a lady in Ireland was famous for curing ague with a large house-spider swallowed alive, thickly coated with treacle."]