Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harboring grudges.
I know one hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
--
"The Porcupine"Ogden Nash
But now in the last two weeks of his stray year the little dog had added a house on another road to his nightly rounds. A house where two old people lived with a toothless, rheumatic old hound. The hound was too toothless to gnaw his bones, too old and weary with life to bury his bones. But still the old hound obeyed his dog instincts and shoved his bones under an old burlap bag against the wall of a shed where he lay during the day sunning his rheumatic joints. And the little dog knew.
Meindert DeJong
I listen back to some of Porcupine now and... well, not blush exactly, we were great and all that... but we could have been just anyone, you know?
Ian McCulloch
The Deer don't dine
When a Wolf's about,
And the Porcupine
Sticks his quill-points out.Arthur Guiterman
If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.
Richard Jeni
What! Would you slap the Porcupine?
Unhappy child — desist!
Alas! That any friend of mine
Should turn Tupto-philist.Hilaire Belloc
Nash, Ogden
Nash, Paul (artist)
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