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How to tell the Birds from the Flowers - Revised

Robert Williams Wood

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How to tell the Birds from the Flowers - Revised | Robert Williams Wood

How to tell the Birds from the Flowers - Revised

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How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, R. W. Wood’s use of pun and rhyme is one of the most entertaining!

Intro-duc-tion.

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 chestnut's burred,

And if the hop-vine hops away,

It's perfectly absurd.

I hence submit for your inspection,

This very new and choice collection,

Of flowers on Storks, and Phlox of birds,

With some explanatory words.

Not every one is always able

To recognize a vegetable,

[pg v]

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 drawn upon

The works of Gray and Audubon,

Avoiding though the frequent blunders

Of those who study Na

Noel 05/05/2023
A joy to read! Witty and cute.
Jessica 02/12/2021
No illustrations!

The actual book accompanies each poem with an excellent and very amusing woodcut, which the ebook version leaves out!

It's like the icing without the cake. What's the point?
Jason 10/21/2019
A quirky little book, I dipped in and out of it over the last few days. This is the sort of book that would get you in trouble at school, to make the poems rhyme the words sometimes get manipulated to sound how the poet wants them. For example Peculiar becomes P-Q-Liar.

Favourite comparison was the P
Rebecca 10/11/2019
Inventive and lovely.
Jack 10/11/2019
So, people of the olden times could be funny. Who knew?!
Joseph 07/12/2012
A charming little book full of witty wordplay, self-referential humor, and a few tongue-twisters. (In an added geeky twist (unsurprising coming from a theoretical physicist), even a footnote on Greek etymology is in rhyme.)

As his daughter writes in her 1958 introduction, "Here, dear Reader, is the t

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