JIMMY HEDGEHOG

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 37, 13 February 1943, Page 7

JIMMY HEDGEHOG

AN AUCKLANDER'S PET

Jimmy, the hedgehog, is dead. And seidom was a pet more sadly mourned. But then, never was there a hedgehog like Jimmy. He'd been coming to . tea .every day for five weeks at the home of Mrs. M. E. Spencer, of 6, Almorah Road, Epsom. He was so tame, people could stroke him and he wouldn't put up his bristles. There was nothing of the aggressor about Jimmy. . , When he saw Mrs. Spencer with the plate in her hand, he would follow her across the yard like a kitten. Jimmy first appeared about five weeks ago, and since then he liaci arrived for his evening meal of bread and milk,, sprinkled with , sugar, every evening between 5.30 and 5.45. "Where are you, Jimmy," Mrs Spencer would call, and. he would, come - trotting up. And if she was not there, he would come to the steps of the house and look up, waiting for her. Then, as she went across the yard with his plate, he would follow at her heels. After his meal, he d rest for a little while, sitting in his empty plate, and go off again until the same time next day. But on Wednesday Mrs. Spencer found a little dead hedgehog under the tree, and when Jimmy didn t come for his tea at her call she knew it was her pet. He was only a youngster, she thinks, and apparently had received a knock.