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The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.

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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
Critic
Humorist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Writer
Auburn
Indiana
William Jacob Cuppy
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Embroidery
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Feather
Made
Colored
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They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did.
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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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I only know that all is lost, and that nothing can help me unless I inherit money, strike oil or go to work.
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The Love bird is one hundred percent faithful to his mate-who is locked into the same cage.
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The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
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Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
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[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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[Footnote:] The female of any species is generally regarded as a relatively anabolic organism, more passive than the male, who is relatively katabolic and active. The fact remains that one frequently runs across a rather katabolic female.
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A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras.
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The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.
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Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
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Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.
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The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
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[Footnote:]Each male has from 2 to 790 females with whom he discusses current events. Of these he marries from 3 to 17.
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I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.
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The Zebra is striped all over so that the Lion can see him and eat him. Some people say he is striped so that the Lion can not see him. These people believe that the stripes of the Zebra simulate the bars of sunlight falling through the tall jungle grasses and that therefore the Zebra is invisible and that the earth is flat.
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Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.
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[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.
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