Punch,  25 (1853), 211.

The Innkeeper Rhymer

Anon

Genre:

Essay, Drollery; Song, Drollery

Subjects:

Zoology, Natural History, Textbooks, Taxonomy, Nomenclature


    Suggests that in 'juvenile editions of our Natural History books' innkeepers might be represented as 'a species [...] of the Ornithorynchus, or Beast with a Bill'.



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