<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473104" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Hedgehog and the Fox</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At dusk a fox walked down the street<br>searching for any scraps to eat.<br>Across gardens and down folks’ drives, <br>oblivious to many peoples lives. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">An adult hedgehog scurrying by<br>caught the watchful fox’s eye.<br>Being a fox it instinctively thought, <br>this meal was as good as caught.<br> <br>It stopped and sniffed it from head to foot, <br>and couldn’t believe its stroke of luck.<br>However, a time for friendship this was not, <br>the wise hedgehog had sussed the plot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Waiting on ceremony was not its style at all, <br>the hedgehog rolled into a ball.<br>A predicament not met by the fox before, <br>which made the creature a mite unsure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A tentative touch here, a gentle touch there, <br>but this wasn’t getting it anywhere.<br>It touched it again then licked its paw, <br>this was an enigma, that’s for sure.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Taking two paces back there it sat, <br>wondering how to unroll it flat.<br>It suddenly got up and peed on the ball, <br>but the hedgehog never flinched at all.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">From four paces away the fox sat and observed, <br>waiting for the hedgehog to lose its nerve.<br>It peed on it once more, and again sat down, <br>and waited for it to become unwound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It waited and waited, and became distracted, <br>then like a spring the hedgehog reacted, <br>through the grass and over a high fence, <br>leaving the fox bemused by its sudden absence.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Orlando+Belo">Orlando Belo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=473104" data-title="The Hedgehog and the Fox de Orlando Belo" data-description="At dusk a fox walked down the street searching for any scraps to eat. Across gardens and down folks’ drives, oblivious to many peoples lives. An adult hedgehog scurrying by caught the watchful fox’s eye. Being a fox it instinctively thought..."></div> </div> </div>

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