title: Herman the Hedgehog: Bedtime Tales from the Woodland
author:  Frank Wingate 
description: Frank Wingate has been a teacher, PR man, businessman and manager. In his career he has written and edited many things - newspaper articles, business books, reports, proposals, plans and memos. However, the most enjoyable thing he has written, but not the easiest, is Herman the Hedgehog. The stories were actually told some years ago, when Frank and his family lived in Hong Kong. He would tell them to his daughter, Sophie, to help her sleep. But now they are written down for Sophie, who is now 18, to hand on one day to her own family. They are also available now for anyone else who enjoys the wonder of telling stories to their small children.
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  # Coming, Aphrodite!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Willa Sibert Cather
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com
  
  * [I](comaph_split_2.html#1_0_2)
  
  
  * [II](comaph_split_3.html#1_0_3)
  
  
  * [III](comaph_split_4.html#1_0_4)
  
  
  * [IV](comaph_split_5.html#1_0_5)
  
  
  * [V](comaph_split_6.html#1_0_6)
  
  
  * [VI](comaph_split_7.html#1_0_7)
  
  
  * [VII](comaph_split_8.html#1_0_8)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  DON HEDGER had lived for four years on the top floor of an old
  
  
  house on the south side of Washington Square, and nobody had ever
  
  
  disturbed him. He occupied one big room with no outside exposure except
  
  
  on the north, where he had built in a many-paned studio window that
  
  
  looked upon a court and upon the roofs and walls of other buildings.
  
  
  His room was very cheerless, since he never got a ray of direct
  
  
  sunlight; the south corners were always in shadow. In one of the
  
  
  corners was a clothes closet, built against the partition