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NUMBER:26443
QUOTATION:The hippopotamus is strong
And huge of head and broad of bustle;
The limbs on which he rolls along
Are big with hippopotomuscle.
ATTRIBUTION:Arthur Guiterman (1891–1943), U.S. poet, librettist. Habits of the Hippopotamus (l. 1–4). . .

Oxford Book of Children’s Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed. (1985) Oxford University Press.
 
 
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