If they were going through the woods where there were no signs of moose and found a porcupine, they'd kill it.

In the same way, the need of society drives the human porcupines togetheronly to be mutually repelled by the many prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature.

There is a law throughout the North that a man shall not kill a porcupine.

Twice he encountered porcupines, the sweetest of all morsels to him, and passed them unnoticed; the warm, sleeping smell of a caribou came hot and fresh from a thicket, but he did not approach the thicket to investigate; out of a coulee, narrow and dark, like a black ditch, he caught the scent of a badger.

Koan is snow, ais a shell, mong a loon, kaug a porcupine, &c.

He met in succession a hungry porcupine, an alligator, a horned viper, and some ants, of all of whom he made friends by feeding them the things he had taken along.

They say that it occurred about the time stated, and that the band of Indians went and obtained the porcupines, and then they returned and settled on the St. Croix river.

I was in the act of reaching out a porcupine with an ankylosed knee-joint, when he plucked up courage to say frankly, 'The fact is, I am principally interested in human skeletons.'

"I replaced the porcupine and walked across to the great wall-case.

Or, perhaps, it was the wild cat crouching along a branch with its wicked yellow eyes fixed upon the squirrels which played at the farther end, or else with a scuttle and rush the Canadian porcupine would thrust its way among the yellow blossoms of the resin weed and the tangle of the whortleberry bushes.

She scented the porcupine and she knew that Kazan was full of quills.

DOG AND PORCUPINE.While at Huron River, we saw a lost dog left ashore, who had been goaded by hunger to attack a porcupine.

Instinctively he shunned the porcupine without experiencing the torture of its quills.

As well talk of decking a porcupine with wreaths of flowers, and making it a household pet, to coddle and caress.

Julian walked as slowly as possible, so as not to irritate them, while in the depth of bushes he could distinguish porcupines, foxes, vipers, jackals, and bears.