They were prevailed upon, and let him in accordingly; but were so annoyed with his sharp prickly quills that they soon repented of their easy compliance, and entreated the Porcupine to withdraw, and leave them their hole to themselves.
The old woman seated herself at the table with thefeathers, and how they did fly off the quills, which she scarcely touched with her withered hands!
His mother could not suckle him, for he would have pricked her with his quills.
