THE HEDGEHOG.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sia,—The letter which appears in the issue of December ith on the "heavy breathing" of the hedgehog throws light on an experience which greatly puzzled me in October, 1918. I was billeted in Lestrem just before we followed up the retiring Huns on their retreat from Lille. Opposite my billet and only fifty yards away was the misshapen ruin of the church, and in this ruin, on two -successive nights, arose a most extra- ordinary sound, something between heavy breathing and snoring. The weather was calm, but I must say the noise was very loud for such a small animal to make. I explored the ruins with two other officers, but, although the noise ceased from time to time, we found nothing.—I am, Sir, &c.,
W. N. Dame,
Sometime Lieutenant XI. Corps Troops M.T. Co.. B.E.F., France. Raincliffe, Ecclesfield, near Sheffield.
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