Geology for Jackasses
Anon
Genre: | Poetry, Drollery |
Subjects: | Geology, Superstition |
Notes that fools think that the earth, owing to its crust, is 'a pudding, or pie', that 'Vesuvius, at seasons, let out / The gravy within it has got', and that lava indicates that 'Inside the meat is all hot'. | |
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