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Loading... How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers (edition 1959)by R. W. Wood
Work detailsHow to Tell the Birds from the Flowers: And Other Wood-cuts: A Revised Manual of Flornithology for Beginners by Robert Williams Wood
   None No current Talk conversations about this book. Z loved this. Gift from PLB. (  ) beckydj | Dec 30, 2014 |  I laughed. This is very funny stuff, even if a bit old-fashioned. (  ) Devil_llama | Apr 26, 2011 | Combining Wood's two previous wordplay books into one volume may have made sense commercially but to my mind this larger volume is less pleasing than its sources. The nature of silliness of this sort is that it is best taken in small doses so I prefer the other two books while still deriving great pleasure from this one. ( ) TheoClarke | May 8, 2008 | This small but perfectly formed collection of 28 absurd verses is illustrated with pairs of pen-and-ink drawings that demonstrate the similarity between each bird and its punning floral partner: parrot and carrot, puffin and nuffin. It is easy to see why it so appealled to Will Cuppy, who cites it as the inspiration for the title of his How To Tell Your Friends From The Apes. (  ) TheoClarke | Apr 28, 2008 | This delightful book has pictures that make unrelated plants and animals look similar and silly verses about how to tell them apart. For example: The Plover and the Clover can be told apart with ease, By paying close attention to the habits of the Bees, For En-to-molo-gists aver, the Bee can be in Clover, While Ety-molo-gists concur, there is no B in Plover. The book is out of copyright, and you can find a scanned copy online via Google. ( ) AmphipodGirl | Jan 14, 2006 | no reviews | add a review
From the Intro-Duc-Tion By other Nature books I'm sure, You've often been misled, You've tried a wall-flower to secure. And picked a hen instead: You've wondered what the egg-plants lay, And why the chestnuts burred, And if the hop-vine hops away, It's perfectly absurd. I hence submit for your inspection. This very neiw and choice collection. Of flowers on Stork and Phlox of birds. With some explanatory words. Not everyone is always able To recognize a vegetable, For some are guided by tradition, While others use their intuition, And even I make no pretense Of having more than common sense. Indeed these strange homologies Are in most flornithologies, And I have freely draw upon The works of Gray and Audubon, Avoiding though the frequent blunders Of those who study Nature's wonders. No library descriptions found. |
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