Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1907 — Porcupines Win Fight. [ARTICLE]

Porcupines Win Fight.

Literally living pin cushions and filled with porcupine quils from their ankles to their thighs, Burt Seavey and Cullen Jorden, of Scarboro, were taken to a Portland physician to-night for treatment after a battle with two giant “Maine budgetings,” which they had encountered In a wood road while returning from work this afternoon. The physician plucked more than thirty-five quills from the legs of each man, but no serious results are expected, unless blood itoisoning sets in. As soon as the two young farmers came upon the porcupines, just before dusk, they picked up clubs and started for the animals. The hedgehogs, as they are called hereabouts, jabbed theiß needle-pointed quills into the farmers’ legs. The young men responded with a short but sharp attack with their clubs, but the hedgehogs proved to have the better weapon and carried the day. Although one of them was left stretched out on the ground, the other retreated triumphantly’ and in good order, master of the situation, while the two agriculturists limped home and out of harm’s way as speedily as possible.—New York World.