Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 73
THE PORCUPINE-FISH. do remind one who looks at it, and much more onewho touches it, of the bristling quills of the porcu-pine. It is not a large fish, being less than a footin length, and generally as broad (or round) as itis long. Its scientific name is Diodon hysirix, thesecond word being, as you… … There lived a queer old king,Who used to skip and swing,And dance before the fiddle, and all that sort of thing. In princely robes arrayed,The games of youth he played,And mingled with the low buffoons at fair or masquerade. His royal back he d stoopTo chase a rolling hoop,Or romp in merry…
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