this story, my dear young folks, seems to be false, but it really is true, for my grandfather, from whom i have it, used always, when relating it, to say complacently, "it must be true, my son, or else no one could tell it to you." the story is as follows. one sunday morning about harvest time, just as the buckwheat was in bloom, the sun was shining brightly in heaven, the east wind was blowing warmly over the stubble-fields, the larks were singing in the air, the bees buzzing among the buckwheat, the people were all going in their sunday clothes to church, and all creatures were happy, and the hedgehog was happy too.