| Show MRS PRICKLY PORKY By Thornton W Burgess The self sufficient seldom care What others think or how they fare Old Old Mothel Nature Just Juat when ehen hen Mrs Porky at- at ai rIved in the Green Forest and where she he had come from no one seemed to know She hid hd been ered there late in the fall falland and she had bad remained all winter The only one who eho ho knew anything about her br was Prickly Porky and what hat he knew he kept ept to himself He v was vias as perfectly happy In ha haIng Ing Ingher her there thore No one ever er saw them having much to lo dolth do with eith other each or e eer ever er heard them sa Ba much to each other But they were never found verv very far tar apart here ft here one oneas I as as the other v was as sure cure to be near Mrs Porky was as very lIke I Pork himself Her I coat wasn Quite as dark as his bis but bidden hidden In tl It were ere just as many of those sharp pointed little spears as Prickly I Porky had in hl his coat She was just as slow moving just as Inde lade Independent pendent and just as stupid appeal appealing ing as Prickly Porky Like him she seemed to care for nothing but eating and sleeping She did not care to make friends and the theother theother other people of ot the Green Forest soon gave up trying to make her aCQuaintance The I winter Inter was the happiest one Prickly Porky Perky had ever spent You know it takes very little to make some people happy There as plenty to eat no matter malter what hat the weather A porcupine can al alea always n find plenty to eat for or as IOU ou know he Ih lives liles es on bark and tender There Thero had aI a always s been plenty to eat In other But this winter there was no loneliness for Prickly POIl y He had a II mate and just seeing teeing her about as enough to make his happiness com corn complete So the 1 winter passed and spring came By this time Mrs Irs Porky knew all the hollow logs and hot hot- hollow hol hollow low trees and brush heads m in that part of the tile Green Forest here they lived She began to take tako a great Interest in these an Interest that Porky didn't share shara at atall atall atall all In the w inter when it was v ery cold and when ehen hen there were bad I I Mrs Porky was very much like Prickly Porky himself storms Prickly Porky hid hd been glad of a certain big hollow hollo log In to sleep In But with the coming of or spring he had InI I little use for his hollow log He couldn't understand at all ehy hy hyI I Mrs Porky was ens forever poking about and anti looking Into Inlo these hol 1101 hollow I Ilow low logs and stumps slumps But Dut Prickly Porky Is not one to I concern himself about other peo- peo peo people pie s a affairs And Mrs Porky Is 18 not one to eon confide ride in an one even her mate So though they saw each other every emery e ery dav dal da they paid lit lit- littie lit little tie tle attention to one another It ii was enough for tor each to know that th the other was as near So It was that Porky did didI I not even notice that Mrs Porky as s as spending less and less time inthe In inthe the trees and oil olten otten en disappeared for consIderable time If It he did not forI I miss her he alwa s thought that she was as close close- close close-by by thero hero lie couldn t see her You know his eyes are not of the best It never entered his head to go look for her This suited Mrs POlky for Mrs Porky had a secret Yes Yea sir Mrs Porky had a secret and It had to do with a certain hollow tree Copyright 1924 by T W Bur Bur- Burgess Bur Bur- Burgess Burgess gess I IThe The ne next nest t sto-Dobby sto story Bobby Coon De Be comes Be-comes I comes Curious |
