THE HEDGEHOGS AND THE RABBITS

THE HEAD OF THE COTSWOLD HEDGEHOGS

WENT TO SEE THE HEAD OF THE

LOCAL RABBITS FOR SOME HELP.

"HEY RABBIT,

WONDER IF YOU CAN HELP US", HE SAID

"I'LL BE GLAD TO TRY, SPIKEY",

SAID THE RABBIT.

"THE THING IS, LIKE IT IS NOW, AT NIGHT,

WE ARE LOSING FAR TOO MANY FELLOW HOGS

TO THOSE DEVLISH MACHINES WITH BRIGHT EYES

THAT MOVE LIKE THUNDER ALONG THE

SMOOTH BLACK WALKWAYS.

I WAS WONDERING, YOUR SPECIES SEEM

TO BE VERY GOOD AT DODGING THEM,

YOU NEVER SEEM TO GET SQUASHED".

"AAAH" SAID BRIAR,

"I WILL TELL YOU HOW WE DO THIS,

COME WITH ME NOW AND WE WILL DEMONSTRATE

THE TECHNIQUE TO YOUR TRIBAL MEMBERS".

LOOKING PLEASED,

THE HEDGEHOG GATHERED HIS INNER CIRCLE

TOGETHER AND THEY WALKED THE SHORT

DISATNCE WITH THE RABBIT TO THE A419, NEARBY.

"NOW", SAID RABBIT,

"THIS IS WHAT YOU DO...

IF YOU SEE THOSE TWO BRIGHT LIGHTS

HEADING TOWARDS YOU AS YOU

ARE CROSSING THE ROAD,

JUST MAKE SURE YOU SIT DOWN

RIGHT IN BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM.

THEN YOU WILL BE FINE". 

JUST TO PROVE IT, THE RABBIT RAN INTO THE

ROAD IN FRONT OF A SPEEDING CAR

AND TO THE SHOCKED HEDGEHOGS' DELIGHT

EMERGED UNSCATHED AND REJOINED THE GROUP.

SPIKEY WAS KEEN TO DEMONSTRATE THE

NEW TECHNIQUE SO AS SOON AS THE NEXT PAIR

OF LIGHTS APPEARED HE RAN INTO THE ROAD

AND SQUATTED DOWN BETWEEN THE LIGHTS...

THERE WAS A NASTY SQUELCHING NOISE AND

THE HEDGEHOGS TURNED TO LOOK

AT RABBIT...WHO SAID,

"BLIMEY,

YOU DON'T SEE MANY RELIANT ROBINS AROUND

THESE DAYS DO YOU".