StoryTitle("caps", "The Porcupine") ?>
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PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What! Would you slap the Porcupine?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Unhappy child—desist!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Alas! That any friend of mine", "") ?>
PoemLine("L1", "", "Should turn Tupto-philist.*", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
DisplayImage("text", "zpage018", "* From the "tupto"=I strike; "philo"=I love; one that loves to strike; The word is not found in classical Greek, nor does it occur among the writers of the Renaissance—nor anywhere else.