Mr. Barnett is more foxy than hedgehoglike in other ways too.

… the preacher-man was weepy- eyed when he funeralized the corpse; …

He was conveyed to one of our ships of war, and there he remained a few years, doing all kinds of drudgery, when, from his great activity in reefing the sails, and other seamen-like duties, he so far distinguished himself, as to obtain the good-will of his captain, who had him rated a Yddim.

On your better days, you are but a doodlebrain.