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PUSHMI-PULLYUS, according to Doctor Dolittle's faithful Chronologist Hugh Lofting, "are now extinct. That means, there aren't any more. But long ago, when Dr. Dolittle was alive, there were some of them still left in the deepest jungles of Africa; and even then they were very, very scarce. They had no tail, but a head at each end, and sharp horns on each head." Last week TIME's editors discovered that Lofting had been wrong in only one respect: the Pushmi-Pullyu is not extinct at all: it was revived in the form...
...TIME yields to the gentleman from Tennessee, evidently a prodigious chronologist...
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