on the other to enable him to browse comfortably on the sides of steep mountains. The wunk is a strange animal that digs a hole and pulls the hole in after it. In some localities hunting the wunk’s hole takes the place of cross-word puzzles, but in the nature of things it is a pastime rarely successful. Then there is the lurloo, and the winnowelver, the twittering teeper, the tcheucker and the drowsy cover. In short, the woods are full of a variety of interesting creatures that have been shamefully neglected by the natural scientists. We call upon the scientists to give us further information about these animals. The public has a right to know more about them than such poetical statistics as James Whitcomb Riley compiled in “The Flying Islands of the Night”:
But Dwainie hides in Spirkland
And answers not at all.
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