Word: bassington
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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Ever since Saki's Colonel, in "The Unberable Bassington," first announced that the Bandicoot had been lost, together with the roc and the borogove, and even hinted that there might not be much point in looking for it, the perverse have been looking. What became of the Bandicoot? No one ever knew. Well, hardly anyone, but a student of biology, casting about through the caverns of Peabody Museum this week, came upon a curious bit of taxidermy. The label, like all Peabody labels, was in flower long before Saki's colonel, and it reads "Broad-Billed Bandicoot." Spurred...
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