| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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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 (18911943), U.S. poet, librettist. Habits of the Hippopotamus (l. 14). . .
Oxford Book of Childrens Verse in America, The. Donald Hall, ed. (1985) Oxford University Press. |
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