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Read Ebook: More Beasts (For Worse Children) by Belloc Hilaire B T B Basil Temple Blackwood Illustrator
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And I know the place he lives in It is Ecuador, Brazil or Chili--possibly Peru; You must find it in the Atlas if you can.
The Llama of the Pampasses you never should confound With the Lhama who is Lord of Turkestan.
For the former is a beautiful and valuable beast, But the latter is not lovable nor useful in the least; And the Ruminant is preferable surely to the Priest Who battens on the woful superstitions of the East, The Mongol of the Monastery of Shan.
The Chamois
The Chamois inhabits Lucerne, where his habits Give him sudden short spasms On the brink of deep chasms, And he lives in perpetual fear.
The Frozen Mammoth
This Creature, though rare, is still found to the East Of the Northern Siberian Zone.
It is known to the whole of that primitive group That the carcass will furnish an excellent soup, Though the cooking it offers one drawback at least :
And hence The dainty is nearly unknown.
The Microbe
The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope. His jointed tongue that lies beneath A hundred curious rows of teeth; His seven tufted tails with lots Of lovely pink and purple spots,
On each of which a pattern stands, Composed of forty separate bands; His eyebrows of a tender green; All these have never yet been seen-- But Scientists, who ought to know, Assure us that they must be so. . . . Oh! let us never, never doubt What nobody is sure about!
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