The Frozen Mammoth

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Title:     The Frozen Mammoth
Author: Hilaire Belloc [More Titles by Belloc]

This Creature, though rare, is still found to the East
Of the Northern Siberian Zone.
It is known to the whole of that primitive group
That the carcass will furnish an excellent soup,
Though the cooking it offers one drawback at least
(Of a serious nature I own):
If the skin be _but punctured_ before it is boiled,
Your confection is wholly and utterly spoiled.
And hence (on account of the size of the beast)
The dainty is nearly unknown.

[The end]
Hilaire Belloc's poem: Frozen Mammoth

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