A Child's Primer of Natural History

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MY child, the Duck-billed Plat-y-pus / A sad ex-am-ple sets for us: / From him we learn how In-de-ci-sion / Of char-ac-ter pro-vokes De-ri-sion.

This vac-il-lat-ing Thing, you see, / Could not de-cide which he would be, / Fish, Flesh, or Fowl, and chose all three.

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