When the moon fell down!

When the moon fell down!

One evening, when the moon was full and shone out in a cloudy sky, 

Prickles the Hedgehog went out to look for a beetle or two for his dinner.

When he was under a chestnut tree a large chestnut

fell down on his back and made him jump in fright. 

  .At the same moment the moon disappeared behind a cloud

 'Ooh!'  cried prickles at once. 'The moon fell down on my back! Ooh! I felt It's fallen out of my sky! I must tell Frisky the Squirrel' 

 He found Frisky and told him. 'The moon has fallen out of the sky!' he said. 'It hit my back. I fell it. What shall we do?'

  Frisky was excited. 'We must tell Hoo-Hoo the Brown Owl, ' he said. So they went to where

Hoo-Hoo was sitting on a branch and told him.

 'The moon has fallen out of the sky!'  Said Frisky the Squirrel. 'It hit Prichles on the back. He felt it. What shall we do?'

   Hoo-Hoo was astonished. He look up into the cloudy sky, buthe could certainly see no moon three.

 'We must tell Sly-One the Stoat,' he said. So all three set off barn where Sly-One was watching for mice.

 'Sly-One, listen!' cried Hoo-Hoo. 'The moon has fallen out of the sky! It hit prickles on the back, he felt it. What shall we do?'

  Sly-One could hardly believe his ears. He jumped up excitedly. 'We must tell velvety the Mole,' he said. Sthey all hurried off to where Valvety was making a big tunnel in the field.

  'Listen, Velvety!' cried Sly-One. 'The moon has fallen out of the sky! It hit Prickles on the back.He felt it. What Shall we do?'

 'Why, go and find it, of cource!' said Velvety at once. So they all ran to the place where Prickles had felt certain that the moon had fallen on his back, and began to hunt about.

   The wind blew a little, and a few more chestnut fell down. Bump! One hit Frisky the squirrel on the nose. Bump! Another hit Sly-One the stoat on his 

arched back. Bump! A third hit Hoo-Hoo the Owl on his beak.

'Why, the chestnuts are falling!' cried Frisky, picking one up and nibbling it. 

'It must have been a chestnut you felt, Prickles. What a silly you are!'

 Prickles didn't like being called silly. He stood all his spines up on end at once. 'I tell you, it was the moon!' he said crossly. 'Don't I know the difference between the moon and a chestnut?'

 And dear me, at that very moment the moon sailed out from behind a cloud 

and lit up the wood with its bright silvery light!

 'Ho, ho!' laughed all the creatures. 'There's the moon in the sky, after all. So you didn't know the difference between the moon and a chestnut! Funny old Prickles!'

 But Prickles wasn't there! He had crept away to hide in a ditch, quite ashamed of himself.

 Poor old hedgehog!