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Excerpt from Experience, the Tale of the Wimpus
And then one day, there came into the forest of the Wimpuses, a great soaring eagle, who had scarcely an)? Voice at all, and the Lad)? Wim puses grew afraid as they saw him from afar, and observed the great size of his talons and the spread of his Wings. Qhat is, they Were afraid un til they remembered the little W' pus With the big voice and so they all gathered around him and told him of the devastator Who Was approaching. (the little Wimpus laughed heartily When he heard their fears, and warn ed them to stop up their ears lest he deafen them, and assured them he would annihilate the invader when the time came. And then the time and the eagle both came together and withthem came the opportunity and the little Wimpus thrust out his little chest and opened his mouth and pre pared to scream; but somehow some thing Went wrong and the great voice of the little Wimpus didn't come forth and he tried again, and still there was only a little gasping noise such as an)? One Would expect from an ordinary Wimpus, and by the time he prepar ed for a third attempt there wasn't any little Wimpus left. And per haps that is why the plaintive cry of the Wimpuses in the tree-tops of the Sylvan groves is heard no more, and why people smile when their name is mentioned.
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