Swishes His Prickly Tail 
As the fox came running 
toward him, the porcupine 
put his head between his 
legs, and then raised the 
sharp quills which covered 
his back and tail. 
He was such a strange- 
looking creature, the fox 
stopped to smell him. 
With a quick swish of his 
tail the porcupine struck 
the fox in the face. 
The quills were barbed 
like a fishhook and stuck 
in the fox's nose, and 
while he tried to paw them 
out, the porcupine wad¬ 
dled away to a near-by tree. 
