Lindsay, Norman, 1879-1969 / 2008-11-19 00:00:00
EBOOK, THE MAGIC PUDDING ***
This eBook was produced by Geoffrey Cowling.
The Magic Pudding:
Being the Adventures of Bunyip Bluegum and his friends
Bill Barnacle and Sam Sawnoff
by
Norman Lindsay
[ Bunyip Bluegum ]
[ and his Uncle ]
[ are koalas ]
[ ]
This is a frontways view of Bunyip Bluegum and his Uncle Wattleberry.
At a glance you can see what a fine, round, splendid fellow Bunyip
Bluegum is, without me telling you. At a second glance you can see
that the Uncle is more square than round, and that his face has
whiskers on it.
Looked at sideways you can still see what a splendid fellow Bunyip
is, though you can only see one of his Uncle's whiskers.
Observed from behind, however, you completely lose sight of the
whiskers, and so fail to realize how immensely important they
are. In fact, these very whiskers were the chief cause of
Bunyip's leaving home to see the world, for, as he often said to
himself--
"Whiskers alone are bad enough
Attached to faces coarse and rough
But how much greater their offence is
When stuck on Uncles' countenances.
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