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The Platypus.

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MY child, the Duck-billed Plat-y-pus     A sad ex-am-ple sets for us:     From him we learn how In-de-ci-sion     Of char-ac-ter pro-vokes De-ri-sion.     This vac-il-lat-ing Thing, you see,     Could not de-cide which he would be,     Fish, Flesh, or Fowl, and chose all three.     The sci-en-tists were sore-ly vexed     To clas-si-fy him; so per-plexed     Their brains that they, with Rage at bay,     Called him a hor-rid name one day, -     A name that baf-fles, frights, and shocks us, -     Or-ni-tho-rhyn-chus Par-a-dox-us.

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