hoped he would become discouraged and 

 go away, but he continued his explora- 

 tions over our heads a long time, inter- 

 fering with our efforts to sleep; so a 

 lantern was lighted and we went out 

 and threw sticks of wood and stones 

 at him. 



The porcupine came down that roof 

 in the same manner that he comes down 

 a tree trunk, tail first, but the roof 

 boards were steep and slippery and his 

 toe nails would not stick as they do in 

 the rough bark of a tree, so he came 

 down hurriedly, landing with a thud on 

 a rotten log at the back of the cabin. 

 In the morning we discovered that a lot 

 of porcupine quills were sticking ver- 

 tically in the log so that a section of it 

 resembled an inverted scrubbing brush. 



Hotel Palmer was built several years 

 ago, by George, Dave and Leslie. When 

 the law respecting camps on State lands 

 became effective, it was torn down. But 



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