A Fairy Tale About Hedgehogs. Сказка про ежиков

Глава 1A Fairy Tale About HedgehogsIn a small village near a pond, there lived a kind owner. One day, he bought a rubber mat embroidered with three funny hedgehogs—one big, one medium, and one tiny. He placed the mat in his hallway inside his house. That year, the owner’s garden was brimming with vegetables and fruits. In early September, he began harvesting apples—bright red and yellow, of various sorts. One evening, he gathered a basket full of rosy apples and carried it home. One apple accidentally dropped right onto the hedgehog mat.The owner felt a bit awkward about picking it up and thought, “No matter, I’ll do it tomorrow.” But the next morning, the apple was gone from the mat. Where could it have gone? The following day, he accidentally dropped another ripe yellow apple in the corridor, and again, come morning, it had disappeared.The next evening, the owner deliberately left a r…