The Platypus And The Mermaid, And . . .
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| Originally published | 1997 |
| Authors | Harriet Ritvo |
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| ID | 2173240 |
About The Platypus And The Mermaid, And . . .
"Cats is 'dogs,' and rabbits is 'dogs,' and so's parrots; but this `ere 'tortis' is a insect," a porter explains to an astonished traveler in a nineteenth-century Punch cartoon. Railways were not the only British institution to schematize the world. . . .