Show e 0 1 3 BONNER porcupines BROTHER once upon ft a time begun began daddy thero there lived way olt off in tho the woods the dense black woods where people seldom go a family of porcupines now you know of course that porcupine i have long sharp quills hint look dangerous nut but they tire their only real mil menns of protection and overy everything thIng that lives in tho the woodi wood 4 must have some bamo protection other cither of coloring or of a way of defending themselves against enemies or of hiding or keeping very quiet the porcupine tire are really very mild and most kindly by nature they must have those thome quills it if they tire lire to keep stife safe in tho the deep woods woodi and it Is in the deep woods that they want to live some animals have claws or sharp teeth or tire very big and strong something to save sae them from hand barm in the animal world though men and their guns tire are the moat dangerous enet tiles of nil all and the hardest to combat lint the porcupines have their quills and they just have to spread themselves out with these sharp pointed quills in the air when they seo see any unfriendly animal and the creature usually runs in fear one time a mother and daddy dadd y porcupine had some beautiful little porcupine children rt at least they thought they were very beautiful and were very proud of thorn mein hut but the youngest wits not very iz whenever billy wanted to go anywhere strong neither were his quills very sharp pointed so his mother and daddy and his other little brothers and sisters made a great pet of little billy porcupine as lie was called whenever billy wanted to go anywhere one of his brothers brot liers or sisters always went along with him film to mm ece that no harm came to him one day billy porcupine was invited to a porcupine childrens party only very young porcupines were invited so BO nilly billy was the only one invited out of ills his family ills mother fixed him film all up nicety nicely for the party and brushed ills quills to make them look as well as possible and off lie he started with his biggest brother billy porcupine was awfully excited as he loved parties but they had not gone very far when a great rumble was heard through the woods oh what Is that cried billy porcupine porcu p ine and before his brother had time to answer what should they gee flee coming toward them but a great big lion ilion the lion spied blyly first and seeing his quills very strong he thought to himself 11 ill soon do away with that delicate little morsel but he seen billys ys brother who quickly shoved billy buck back of him and stood in front of the lion Ilon with ma his quills sticking straight out then the big lion began to tremble na as he looked ht at the sharp long quills of billys brother ile he saw he be pet get at billy without attacking billys illys 13 brother and so BO the great big lion turned way away from the little porcupine shivering with bear tear eft at the mere thought of thoe alaf awful ul quills jf df billys brother and ran so through hta his sharp quills he saved aved his brothers life and how happy the porcupine family felt at billys rescue I 1 tell yo you u |