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44 limericks about animals, alphabeticised by name, from 'The Amoeba' to 'The Zebu'.

The cover image features the rat: "A highly intelligent rat / Was reading the Rubáiyát". Other creatures have similarly sophisticated tastes, like the carp who can "dance it like Twyla Tharp"; elsewhere Edwin Morgan plays with sound and spelling, for example rhyming "Torquil" and "snorkel" in 'The Otter'.

Mariscat published an edition of 350 copies.

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44 limericks about animals, alphabeticised by name, from 'The Amoeba' to 'The Zebu'.

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