A Prickly Porcupine came wandering along
one day, looking for a place to live.
He found a family
of Snakes living in a
warm cave, and asked them to let him come in.
The Snakes consented, though much against
their will, and the Porcupine crept
into their
home. But they soon found
that his sharp
quills stuck into them, and hurt
them, and
they wished they had never let him in.
"Dear Porcupine, please
go away," they
said; "you are so large and so prickly."
But the Porcupine was very rude, and said.
"O no. If you do not like
it here, you can
go away. I find it very nice."
It is easier to keep an intruder
out than to
compel him to go when you
have once let
him in.
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