at wanders round the Pole
Is not a table fish.
You cannot bake or boil him whole
Nor serve him in a dish;

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But you may cut his blubber up
And melt it down for oil.
And so replace the colza bean
(A product of the soil).

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These facts should all be noted down
And ruminated on,
By every boy in Oxford town
Who wants to be a Don.

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The Camel

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"The Ship of the Desert."

The Hippopotamus

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I shoot the Hippopotamus
with bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
his hide is sure to flatten 'em.

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The Dodo

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The Dodo used to walk around,
And take the sun and air.
The sun yet warms his native ground--

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The Dodo is not there!

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The voice which used to squawk and squeak
Is now for ever dumb--

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Yet may you see his bones and beak
All in the Mu-se-um.

The Marmozet

The species Man and Marmozet
Are intimately linked;
The Marmozet survives as yet,
But Men are all extinct.

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The Camelopard

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The Camelopard, it is said
By travellers (who never lie),
He cannot stretch out straight in bed
Because he is so high.
The clouds surround his lofty head,
His hornlets touch the sky.

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How shall
I hunt this quadruped?
I cannot tell!
Not I!

(A picture of how people try
And fail to hit that head so high.)
I'll buy a little parachute
(A common parachute with wings),
I'll fill it full of arrowroot
And other necessary things,
And I will slay this fearful brute
With stones and sticks and guns and slings.

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(A picture of how people shoot
With comfort from a parachute.)

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The Learned Fish

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This learned Fish has not sufficie