More Beasts for Worse Children by  Hilaire Belloc
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Python
The Welsh Mutton
The Porcupine
The Scorpion
The Crocodile
The Vulture
The Bison
The Viper
The Llama
The Chamois
The Frozen Mammoth
The Microbe

The Bison


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The Bison is vain,

And (I write it with pain)

The Door-mat you see on his head


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Is not as some learned professors maintain,

The opulent growth of a genius' brain;


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But is sewn on with needle and thread.


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