242 NATURAL HISTORY READER. 



Anatomy toadies, 

 Ornithology preaches, 

 An owl has a toe 

 That can't turn out so ! 

 I've made the white owl my study for years, 

 And to sec such a job almost moves mo to tears ! 

 Mister Brown, I'm amazed 

 You should be so gone crazed 

 As to put up a bird 

 In that posture absurd ! 



To look at that owl really brings on a dizziness ; 

 The man who stuffed him don't half know his busi 

 ncss!" 



And the barber kept on shaving. 



4. " Examine those eyes. 

 I'm filled with surprise 

 Taxidermists should pass 

 Off on you such poor glass ; 

 So unnatural they seem, 

 They'd make Audubon scream 

 And John Burroughs laugh 

 To encounter such chaff. 



Do take that bird down ; 



Have him stuffed again, Brown ! " 



And the barber kept on shaving. 



5, ''With some sawdust and bark 

 I could stuff in the dark 



An owl better than that. 



I could make an old hat 



Look more like an owl 



Than that horrid fowl, 



Stuck up there so stiff like a side of coarse leather. 



In fact, about him there's not one natural feather," 



