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Our urson, though it became attached to Uncle Denis and would feed out of his hand, was always an object of awe to the rest of the animals, who seemed well aware of its power of inflicting punishment on any of them who might offend it. Even Bruin held it in respect, and none of them ever attempted to be on too familiar terms. The sable took even longer to tame than the urson.
Having secured the urson in a way which made its escape impossible, we turned our attention to the sable, which the dogs had brought to bay, but the brave little creature was becoming faint, from the wounds inflicted on it from the porcupine's tail, the quills from which were sticking out all over one side of its body.
The marten soon made up its mind to assault its opponent, which, instead of retreating into its hole, came boldly forward and ascended the fallen trunk. I at once saw that it was an "urson," or porcupine; although my companion supposed it to be another animal, as he could not see the long quills with which the English porcupine is armed. This creature was fully two feet long.
I am nervous myself, but I can keep a dog twice my own size at bay; if he comes too near I turn my; back and give him a taste of my tail, and a mouthful of quills into the bargain." "Ah, but I haven't a tail, you see!" said Phil, and the Urson remarked that as that was the case he must learn to do without. "And he used them to decorate his squaw's front hair!" said the Urson with disgust.
Phil thought it was all very well for a Porcupine full of quills to talk so bravely; for a small boy it was quite different. "Not at all," said the Urson, as if he had spoken his thoughts aloud. "They would leave you alone if you did not let them see you were so frightened.
Porcupine, who did not seem in the least disturbed by her lord's reproaches. "He wants a little change of air, poor dear," she said to Phil in a confidential whisper. "I expect he'll be leaving me soon I know the signs." The Urson caught her whisper, and his sharp little face grew sad.
Urson was as pleased with his admiration of her offspring as the Lady Ondatra had been. His father, however, was inclined to be testy. "He's just an ordinary young Porcupine," he said; "no more, no less. Don't put nonsense into his head, please his mother is ready enough to do that." Feeling rather uncomfortable on her account, Phil turned to Mrs.
Having destroyed one tree, it climbs up to the top of another, and carries on the same process, always proceeding in a straight line, and I have often, when passing through a forest, been able to trace its progress by the line of barked trees, which are sure ultimately to die. It is asserted by some hunters, that a single urson will consume the bark of a hundred trees in the course of a year.
The urson plays a not unimportant part in the destruction of the forests of North America, as it feeds entirely on the bark of trees. This it separates from the branches with its sharp teeth, commencing at the highest and working its way downwards.
That is because she is a coward at heart, for all her fierceness." A snarl of rage from "Peeshoo" told Phil that she had overheard. "She always snarls when I move out of her reach, though she dare not touch me," said the Urson, making himself into a bristling ball of defiance as he heard the sound. "I do that to remind her what she would have to face," he explained to Phil.
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