Word: hippogriff
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...serpent to give his story-loving friend, the late Col. William D'Alton Mann, longtime publisher of the defunct Town Topics, "something to talk about." Said Artist Watrous: "I got a cedar log and fashioned one end of it into my idea of a sea monster or hippogriff. I made a big mouth, a couple of ears, like the ears of an ass, four big teeth . . . and for eyes I inserted in the sockets of the monster two telegraph pole insulators of green glass. . . . I painted the head in yellow and black stripes . . . the mouth red . . . the ears blue...
...myself. I heard the monotonous sound of my Charon's oar-locks die away in the distance; there was an occasional bark from some far-off farmer's house-dog at intervals that made the silence more supreme, and my thoughts, mounting the fumes of my cigarette for their hippogriff, galloped away as only reveries can speed at the end of a particularly interesting holiday." And here my chum poked the fire, smiled, and then went on impressively...