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born in a thick sack to protect its mother. If

the mother doesn't chew a hole through the

wrapping, the porcupette can't escape and

will die.

Even though a porcupine can’t see and craves

salt and has a soft head and lots of quills;

even though it has big babies and others

think it’s mean, proud, dumb, crazy, ugly, and

scared; even though a porcupine can only

waddle through the woods sniffing its way

from place to place, a procupine sings with

all of its hearts. If you’re walknig through the

forest and you hear this sound, YUUUMMM

00000 EEEEE UUUMMMM, you can be pretty

sure that it is a porcupine.

When a porcupine wants to sing, it stands on

its hind legs and sways back and forth.

YUUUMM 00000 EEEEE UUUMMMM!

Though it can't sing very well, and its life is

far from exciting, a porcupine always finds