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IN treating of hedgehogs in a former note I spoke 



of our failure to confine these animals in the 

 The 



Elusive flower-garden, which it is much desired that 

 they should inhabit for the better repression 

 of slugs and nestling mice. 1 Having that object in 

 view, I have for some years past encouraged members 

 of my family and others to bring every hedgehog that 

 could be captured, to be turned into the said flower- 

 garden, which is securely fenced on three sides, partly 

 by brick walls and partly by wire-netting ; while access 

 and exit on the fourth side can only be had through 

 our house. One would suppose that the hedgehog, 

 being the reverse of nimble, once brought within the 

 enclosure would either reside there or, if the conditions 

 proved unsuitable, give up the ghost. Well, of all 

 those that have been so interned, I don't believe there 

 is one left. They have not died, else we should dis- 

 cover their remains, and it seemed impossible that they 

 should have escaped, until some light was thrown on 

 the problem by an incident in the summer of 1921. 



A young plantation is surrounded by a fence of wire- 

 netting as a protection against rabbits. A young lady 



1 Memorict of the Months, Sixth Series, p. 128. 



