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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.
Will Cuppy
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Will Cuppy
Age: 65 †
Born: 1884
Born: August 23
Died: 1949
Died: September 19
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William Jacob Cuppy
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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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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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I hear so many things about who I am supposed to be I hardly know what to believe. I am willing to tell all, but what Is it? Doubtless all these myths and legends will be straightened out eventually, but It may take years.
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We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.
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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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The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
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A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.
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Most people, it seems, think that Robinson Crusoe when he landed on his Island had nothing to keep him from starvation or anything else. As a matter of fact he had twelve raft loads of supplies that he took off the wrecked ship. He had as much food and furniture as if he had had a delicatessen store and Fifth Avenue outside his hut.
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Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.
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Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
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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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Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.
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The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.
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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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Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
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