Anatomy teaches, Ornithology preaches An owl has a toe That can't turn out so! I've made the white owl my study for years, And to see such a job almost moves me to tears! You should be so gone crazed As to put up a bird In that posture absurd! To look at that owl really brings on a dizziness; The man who stuffed him don't half know his business!" "Examine those eyes. Do take that bird down; Have him stuffed again, Brown!" And the barber kept on shaving. "With some sawdust and bark I could stuff in the dark Stuck up there so stiff like a side of coarse leather. Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, I'm an owl; you're another. Sir Critic, good day!" James Thomas Fields |