The man couldn't hold it no longer and had to excrete his bowels, but the poor porcupine laid there below him, begging him not. "Please, please, don't." the porcupine whined. "I am sorry, but it has to be done" the man above him said. And so the lever was pulled, the stool went throughout the tunnels and then out of the mighty hole and…

…the porcupine turned brown.