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"But a dolphin has no wings," I remarked. "Oh, hasn't it?" rejoined the Gipsy; "its fins are its wings, if it hadn't wings it could not be a Seemor." I think I recognise in this Seemor, the Simurgh or Griffin of Persian fable. I could learn nothing more than this, that the Gipsy had always regarded a dolphin as resembling a large-headed winged monster, which he called a Seemor.
He meant nothing more than that it represented an aged person, but the coincidence was at least remarkable. Budha in Hindustani really signifies an old man. The same Gipsy, observing on the chimney-piece a quaint image of a Chinese griffin a hideous little goblin with wings informed me that the Gipsy name for it was a Seemor or Seemorus, and further declared that the same word meant a dolphin.
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