THE HEDGEHOG ESCAPES.

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 17982, 29 March 1930, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE HEDGEHOG ESCAPES.

rpHE weather was nice, : and the hedgehog roanied the fields, where all was quiet and peaceful, and the long grass hid him from view. “I think I will venture out on this lane; it is so peaceful and quiet-—no one will see me,” he thought. He had not gone far, however, when lie heal'd the sound of children’s voices. “Oh, they will see me now, for I can only move slowly,” he sighed. “Here's a hedgehog!” cried' the children, and the hedgehog hid his face and legs at once, looking just like a prickly hall. One of the children touched it with a stick. “NVe will roll it down home, and put, it under a box till to-morrow, and then we’ll see what it is like.”

So they rolled the hedgehog over and over, and when they got him home they put him under a tin basin with a stone on top and left him outside. “We’ll have some fun tomorrow,” they said. The hedgehog waited until night fell and the children were safely in bed. earth away with his feet. Soon he had Then he set to work, scraping the made a large hole under the tin, big enough for him to squeeze out. Oh, how glad lie was to he free as he went up the lane again 1 “They will not find me here again," he said. Next morning the children were very disappointed when they saw how cleverly the hedgehog had made bis escape. •