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This is the correct version as quoted to me by its author, [the late] Professor A. H. Reginald Buller, F.R.S., etc., etc., onetime professor of botany at the University of Manitoba. . . . This world authority on fungi found enough time . . . to write many such light verses, some of which were inspired by what he saw through a high-power lens. Not a little of this time was spent in trying to get credit for the above, which first appeared over his name in Punch. In his own words: "I don't mind the credit going to Bishops, Wits, Established Authors...
...Oxford, bullers wear bowlers. In both universities, they operate as teams, "a distance runner and a sprinter." A curfew violator may make a run for it, but if a buller gets close enough to say "Good evening, sir," in a conversational tone...
They include Mr. Buller, Vic's business associate, who pulls his own teeth; R. J. Konk, founder of Vic's lodge, the Sacred Stars of the Milky Way; Ruthie Stem-bottom, a family friend; Godfrey Dimlok, who invented a bicycle that could say "mama"; the Brick Mush (Vic & Sade's favorite breakfast food) salesman, who cries almost all of the time; Bluetooth Johnson; Cora Bucksaddle; Ole Chinbunny; Rishigan Fishigan of Sishigan, Michigan; Smelly Clark, and others...
Thomas Theodore Hoffman, Alexander Louis Jackson, 3d., John Pressly Kennedy, Jr., Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Robert Fulton Kurtz, Elliott Charles Lasser, Truman Saul Licht, Russell Frank Locke, Jr., James Logan, Jr., Henry Hixon Meyer, Jr., Clarence Fahnestock Michalis, Ernest Albert Mitchell, John Acton Morgan, Roland Ernest Mueser, Sean Buller Murphy, Henry Norris Platt, Jr., Alfred Howard Renshaw, Walter Barnwell Saunders, Dorraine Ward Slingerland, William Edward Smith, Arthur Sumner Tarlow, Richard Lawrence Wechsler, Edward Tubbs Wentworth, Jh., Walter Chadbourne Wilson, Jr., Benjamin Tappan Wright...
...head." The country reacted, as always under pressure, with threats and recriminations. Commander Masaharu Homma of the Tientsin Garrison, an old hand at talking out of turn, warned that the Japanese Army might have to "reconsider appropriate steps." Japan's Army spokesman told a fantastic cock-&-buller about a Chinese plot against the life of U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson. The Japanese press said it was time to stop "courting favor" with the U. S. In private, statesmen loudly complained that Franklin Roosevelt was trying to wreck the "New Order in East Asia...