28 OCTOBER 1922, Page 17

HOW WILD CREATURES SWIM.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I should like to tell your correspondent, who says that hedgehogs only enter the water under extreme compulsion, that my daughter and I saw one this summer swimming quietly across the river Ure in a strong current. He landed at our feet, and went to a hole in the bank, which he seemed to know. Nothing was pursuing him. I had always believed till then that Mr. Kipling was right.—I am, Sir, &c.,