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"The Porcupine"
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Plot/Description
Spoiler Warning! The narrator is a child that
loves Saturdays because that's when she receives her pocket money. On this
Saturday she rushed into town and bought a bag of raspberry cream
chocolates. Then she headed into the woods to find a secret place to eat
her chocs. She saw a comfy looking little mount and sat down, only to find
she had sat on a porcupine! She jumped up and screamed and ran all the way
home. She had large wiry prickles sticking out of her bum. Her mother
decided that they should go to Mr. Myers, the dentist, as he has the most
experience pulling things out. At the dentist's office, the girl is held
down while Mr. Myers uses pliers to pull each prickle out. He charges the
mother fifty guineas afterwards. At the end of the poem the girl says
she's learned that porcupines have quills to prevent people from sitting
on them. "Don't copy me. Don't be a twit. / Be sure you LOOK before you
SIT."
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