Identifier: threebearsofporc00thom (find matches)
Title: The three bears of Porcupine Ridge, wild dwellers of forest, marsh and lake
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Thompson, Jeanette May, Mrs., 1865- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: Boston, Chicago, W. A. Wilde company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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in ;he received no welcoming snap from the emptyjaws of the familiar pelt. Then, sitting downupon his lean haunches, Gray Coat lifted hishead and sent such along, wailing cry of despairand loneliness through the night that the farmerawoke and, grabbing his gun, started to hunt forthe wolf. But Gray Coat, having gained no responsefrom the limp pelt upon the barn door, had leftthe barn-yard before the farmer got there. Back on a great bare hill he sat, overlookingthe now hateful valley, and trying to reason outin wolf fashion what it all meant. Soon, how-ever, he had made up his mind—a time for 114 WILD DWELLERS OF action had come to Gray Coat; and lifting hishead once more to the moon, he gave one lastlong cry, because of his lost mate. Then swiftly,like a gray shadow, he leaped away—for he hada long road to travel, because this time hisinstinct headed him in the right way, straightfor the North Lands, where he would strike oldfamiliar trails, fresh hunting grounds, and hiskindred.
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TIE 1AICI IX HOW UNK-WXJNK THE PORCUPINE MET HISMATCH IN the thick cover of the spruces, down in anatural hollow, where it was dark and still,and the fragrant boughs swept the ground, form-ing a perfect little bower, or tent, lived a veryinteresting family, Father and Mother Porcupineand their three young ones. So very youngwere the little porcupines, or hedgehogs, as theyare sometimes called, that they resembledneither cubs nor kittens, but at first sight lookednot unlike homely young crows before the pin-feather age ; for when the little hedgehog is born,he is strange looking enough, his quilly armorbeing covered with a transparent skin; andbesides, he is totally deaf and blind, and veryhelpless. It did not take long, however, for quills topoke through the skin covering, and then sightcame to the small, piggy eyes, and the little onesbegan to look more like porcupines. One fineday the wanderlust seized Father Porcupine, and 117 118 WILD DWELLERS OF off he strolled into the deep wood

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