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...Irish air space," and two dour leprechauns, spotting a leprechaun bishop under a toadstool, observe. "So much for our carefree, puckish way of life." Funny fauna inhabit Animals, Animals, Animals, edited by George Booth, Gahan Wilson and Ron Wolin (Harper & Row; 241 pages; $12.50), an old-fashioned chortler of a book. Next to a sign reading DO NOT FEED THE BEARS a smirking moose wears his own sign: I AM NOT A BEAR. Elephants stand around remembering "the Alamo," "the Maine," "Pearl Harbor" and a toga-clad pig solemnly inscribes a scroll under a sign that says...
Toronto's Globe & Mail buried the story on an inside page and looked the other way. The rest of Canada, tired of Toronto's holier-than-thou attitude, howled with delight. The Ottawa Citizen whooped to press with an eight-column, Page One chortler: TORONTO THE GOOD 'MOST WIDE OPEN CITY.' The Ottawa Journal clucked like a mother hen: "Toronto is [just] growing up ... taking on the airs and smells and sounds of a big city. We think it will survive." The unkindest smirk of all lit up the Montreal Herald: "We are presently beaver-busy...
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