Reading Diary Week 9 Continued: Coyote and Porcupine

This one was more interesting to me than the last reading. This story involves coyotes and a porcupine. Initially a porcupine had asked a buffalo for help crossing the river. The porcupine went inside the buffalo to cross the river to ensure him from not falling into the water. Just as the buffalo crossed, the porcupine killed the buffalo and began to slaughter it.

As a coyote was passing, he offered to help slaughter the buffalo for the porcupine because he was too small; he began to do so and clubbed the porcupine to death as well. The porcupine came back to life several times and fought the coyote as he attempted to bring the buffalo meat to his family.

The porcupine ended up silencing the coyote who had killed him, went back and killed his family, and told the last remaining coyote where to go to be at "ease". When this last coyote went there, the porcupine had kicked the branch from under and let him fall in to the canyon and literally explode into pieces. A gruesome story of revenge from a seemingly hopeless porcupine, classic.

The Porcupine and the Coyote: Source

These were the thoughts from reading the story entitled the Coyote and Porcupine, written by Pliny Earle Goddard in 1911.