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The hedgehog benevolent society

We started up this charity when

We heard of the hedgehogs plight

There’s twenty thousand creatures

That get flattened every night

They run across the tarmac

As they head off to the wood

They never see the cars because

Their eyesight’s none too good

For hedgehogs are not clever

On the highway they can’t hack it

So we’d like to fit each one of them

With a bright fluorescent jacket

Then as we sort their clothing

And we’re measuring their chest

We can get our own optician

To perform an eyesight test

We’ll fit them all with spectacles

Glued on, so they don’t lose ‘em

And likewise with the jackets

They’ll have no choice but use ‘em

So please donate some money to

This worthwhile undertaking

It won’t be long, you’ll surely see

The difference we are making

— shazbat, Dec 09, 2009

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Region, Country: Norfolk, UK, GBR

Favorite Poets: Kipling, T.S Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash, Spike Milligan and many more.

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seabhac

seabhac

16 years 6 months ago

Ah

Sweet and smile provoking but none the less to the point of the plight of flattened hedgehogs everywhere.... Seabhac