|H^^S^!!mii^«coniment{ed the employ- 



nient of UedUliogs ta exteiTnijiate Dectlee aufl otU«- 

 housph. Ill pests, Mr. Frank Bucklanrt, tbe well-knowu 

 > nto^^^^^ History. Klves the folio™ a^M»^^^^^^ 



iLiy UTM'vienc.e with tlie suiiniixls : ^' I have tyied h€d«e- 

 lioss tc> 3iiU beftties ; they rlou\ tw-t» , A hedgehog eamiot, 

 1 o,*il)lv hold above a pint of beeth's at a tlnie. antlHi my 

 1 tflieiV thivie are 15a Hons of them. I once tm<i the he-ljre- 



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Tim nejft ii&t Uie ^4erTaiits.came tri^nibliiig to tliem | 

 Avj*^ a bitriclnr iii ttif; diinng ro0m, i^attUng tm plate— it i 

 ^*tthe l&Uo^c. The next night, the coolc put s^ipe 

 SOUP a way , and in the morwinK^ the soup was goBe- the 

 hedgeho.£^Va* ^vas found coileti W ^^l^ep } 

 The^ue,xtiiiiihtnotM«ig Avasj lieard of the hedgehog, anii J 

 fi)!- weel^s could not tell wheie he waf^ gone ; the eoo^ I 

 wa^ thaukfnl, and the eiuc kets sang, O, be joyfiJl, while 

 the beerle^ had free run in the Mtehen. ' Years roUed 

 on: as the novelist^ have it. a«d a steif^ton mts diseov- 



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i e.iea 111 ili^' «ne, which liad smoked tlie whole ot the house 

 out for weeM?^. Tlie hed;^eho$>' a^rain. Thank goodiie^.s, I 

 f hii xi, >;et'Ti Use- last <if t.hot ^-retell, and never wu^h to have 



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