A Child's Primer of Natural History

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THIS is the Yak, so neg-li-gée: / His coif-fure's like a stack of hay; / He lives so far from Any-where, / I fear the Yak neg-lects his hair, / And thinks, since there is none to see, / What mat-ter how un-kempt he be.

How would he feel if he but knew / That in this Pic-ture-book I drew / His Phys-i-og-no-my un-shorn, / For chil-dren to de-ride and scorn?

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