The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-02-03

Z ed, but it cannot be driven to re-enter
the water. 1t prefers death. Picked uI
by hand heavily gIoved and put back
on the log, it will roll in again with
great pronptness.
The porcupine is not at all tenacious
of life, though 1t will withstand great
+ exposure. A light tap on the snout just
in front of the eyes will kill it Instantly
Its bones are small and it's flesh soft.
1t is admirably adapted for showing the
effects of the new high power 30-30 ri
fleS. One of these bullets though no
larger round than a lead pencil, will
make hole in porcupne into which
a man may insert four fingers. In a
majority of instances the projectiles
will drill a clean ulole through deer,
and also through any man who happens
to stand in line five hundred yards
away, but they tear the porcupine bad
ly, possibly because the quilts, slight as
they are, have some tendency to alter
the motion, or cause an upset.
man lost in the woods and forced
to dine on porcupine need not think
himself in particularly hard luck, If he
has salt and knows how to cook. A
strong prejudice exists against Its flesh
among the lumbermen, who despise the
animal too much when alive to enjoy it
when dead but its meat is really tender
and of an exquisite flavor. 1t Is more
repulsive in appearance than 'possum
but it's ugliness is only skin deep 1t is
almost ally Us in prime condition and,
unless it ge.s into somebody's camp, is
genuinely clean feeder. The barks
and buds upon which it lives add SAVIOR
to 1t and it Is not swift or cunning
enough to catch any live thing though
1t is sometimes accused of raiding birds
nests for eggs or young. 1t is really as
good as postum, its flesh having the
same indescrbable richness with sus-
picion of wildness that is never found in
the meat of a domesticated animal,
feathered or furred 1t should be
cleaned by skinning well, washed in
sailed water and then baked or roasted
either in q stove or Dutch over If
sweet potatoes be added to it, as well
as plenty of red pepper, it will be SO
much the better. When 1t is well
Drowned and is served hot, steaming in
its own juices, the hungry man hidden
to eat of it will be almost ready to for
give. 1t for its unwholesome looks and
undeniable idiocy in life.
1t Is one of the curious products of
mature which there need be no fear Of
extinction, not at least, so long as Wis
consin legislators continue to feel the
same tender interest in the we'll being
of some man who may get lost. As the
great forests of the state become more
and more thinned by axes and the an
nual autumnal fires the lumbermen are
growing scarcer and the porcupines are
growing more frequent. There are nov
huge belts in the state wherein there is
net to be found a single tree worth cut
ting. All of the former giants of the
woods have been laid low and sawed up
into planks of one sort or another The
trees left behind are only saplings, half
growths or else matured trunks so
crooked that no good can be bad of
them The porcupine likes them just
as well, however, as II they were worth
money and lives among them and feeds
On them and brings forth It's young in
their cavities and rolls itself into ball
and laughs at the disappointed wildcat
Or farmers dog as heartily as IL it were
still surrounded by the primeval giants
which once sent their upper branches
swaying hundred and fifty feet above
the earth. In fact, it can fall out of the
tops of them with much more pleasure
and safety.-New York Sun.