"Ant-eater" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... creature now existent on Dunk Island is the so-called porcupine (spiny ant-eater or echidna). An animal which possesses some of the features of the hedgehog of old England, and resembles in others that distinctly Australian paradox, the platypus, which has a mouth which it cannot open—a mere tube through which the tongue is thrust, which in the production ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield |
