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This information seemed to arrest the movements of the Platypus; it had reached the water's edge, but it paused, and turned. "I tell you," it said in a high-pitched and irritable voice, "that all Humans are alike! They all come here to interview me for the same purpose, and I'm resolved it shall not happen again; I have been insulted enough by their ignorance."
"Little Human," it said, "tell me what kind of bush creatures come about your burrow." "We live in a cottage," she said, but seeing that the Platypus did not like to be corrected, and that the Kangaroo looked quite shocked at her doing so, she hurriedly described the creatures she had seen there.
"Oh, Pope a chipmunk! He might at least have allowed you the dignity of a bear or a mountain lion!" "There are no mountain lions in these parts," I said with some dignity. "Or a duck-billed platypus. Oh, I say, Pope, it's too rich. I can't help picturing it. Did they coo? Oh, Lord!" "It was nauseating!" I retorted in accents so genuine that he laughed again.
It wuz here that I see this Thing that Scientists hain't never classified; it is about the size of a beaver has fur like a seal, eyes like a fish, is web-footed, lays eggs, and hatches its young and lives in the water. It is called a Platypus there wuz four on 'em. Queer creeter as I ever see. No wonder that Scientists furled their spectacles in front of it, and sot down discouraged.
If you treat it as an animal, you offend its bird nature, and if you treat it as a bird, the animal in it is mighty indignant. One never knows where one is with a creature that is two creatures," said the Kangaroo. Dot was so sorry for the perplexity of her friend, that she suggested that they should not consult the Platypus.
Observe, too, that my hind feet are narrow, and like a seal's fin, though it has been described as a mole's foot." As the Platypus spoke, and thrust out its strangely different feet, the Kangaroo edged a little closer to Dot and whispered in her ear. "It's getting angry, and is beginning to use long words; do be careful what you say or it will be terrible!"
"I didn't mean an altogether animal, or even a bird, but any a a a ." She seemed puzzled how to speak of the Platypus, when the strange creature, seeing the well-meaning embarrassment of the Kangaroo, said affably, "any mammal or Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus." "Exactly," said the Kangaroo, brightening up, although she hadn't the least idea what a mammal was.
"I didn't mean an altogether animal, or even a bird, but any a a a ." She seemed puzzled how to speak of the Platypus, when the strange creature, seeing the well-meaning embarrassment of the Kangaroo, said affably, "any mammal or Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus." "Exactly," said the Kangaroo, brightening up, although she hadn't the least idea what a mammal was.
I discovered that it had made a nest in one of our lilac bushes and had laid an egg in it. With eggs at twenty cents a dozen and our family fond of custard, an industrious platypus is by no means an unwelcome visitor. When Mr.
"No," returned the Kangaroo, "and some say there was no Ark, and no fuss over the matter, but that, of course, doesn't make any difference, for it's a very ancient quarrel, so it must be kept up. But if we are to go to the Platypus we had better start now; it is a good time to see it so come along, little Dot," said the Kangaroo.
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