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In summer Mary and her younger sister always go to their grandparents who live in the country. Their house is in ... beautiful village on the bank of a river. There is also a forest ... the children often go to pick berries and mushrooms.
last year the girls found a little hedgehog on the way from the forest. He was so cute and funny, but they ... afraid to take him with their hands because he had sharp spines. The animal didn't run away from ... . They gave him some wild strawberries, but the hedgehog didn't want to eat anything, or maybe he was just scared. The girls wanted to take him home. Lily, Mary's sister, said, "Let's not do it because he may lose his way." Mary replied, "We ... with him and then take him back to this place." There was a towel in their basket. It helped them to carry the little animal to the house.
They showed him to their grandma and grandpa. The girls fed the hedgehog and played with him for some hours. ... the evening they took him back to the forest.
The next morning the girls saw the little animal in front of their house. They were so surprised. The hedgehog liked them, and the girls liked the hedgehog. They called him Bill. He became their pet and lived in the garden of the ... grandparents.