Show queer beast the porcupine mother nature surely must have set out to make something different the day she invented the porcupine here alere la Is an animal with a pathetically mild disposition without cunning or bourage vo urage and almost as aa slow and as a turtle it would have been absurd to give him weapons of often so lie would never have the energy to attack anything so he was given a coat of mall mail in which ho he might walk abroad among his enemies ent and yet be ag sate safe as though he idere were behind a wall of steel ills ilia upper tipper parts from hla bis noso nose to the tip of his bis thick muscular tall are covered with a mass of pointed quills intermixed with coarse hair each quill Is provided with a number ot of minute barbs pointing backward so that when it Is once inserted in the flesh of any animal the mere of the muscles TOus clea will causa it t to work deeper and deeper suburban life |