The Border Boys in the Canadian Rockies. Goldfrap John Henry
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Название: The Border Boys in the Canadian Rockies
Автор: Goldfrap John Henry
Издательство: Public Domain
Жанр: Зарубежная классика
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“Ha! ha! ha!” laughed Mountain Jim, whose mirth aroused Persimmons’ secret indignation, “I reckon it was a walking pincushion, all right. Boy, don’t never put your hand on a porcupine again, they always leave souvenirs.”
“A porcupine!” cried the professor.
“Sure enough,” rejoined the guide, and he rolled to their feet with his rifle barrel the body of the small animal he had shot.
It was surely enough one of those spiny and familiar denizens of the north woods.
“Nodding needles! No wonder I felt as if I’d struck a pincushion,” cried poor Persimmons, who had, by this, drawn the last of the offending quills from his hand. “I heard something grunting and nosing about my blankets, and when I put my hand out I got it full of stickers.”
“I’ll put some peroxide on,” said the professor, hastening to his tent for the medicine chest.
“They aren’t poisonous, are they?” asked Ralph, referring to the quills.
“No; just sharp, that’s all,” responded Mountain Jim. “Porcupines are the greediest and stupidest cusses in the woods. I reckon this one smelled grub and was investigating when he ran into Master Simmons here.”
“You mean that Persimmons ran into him,” corrected Ralph.
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