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How to Attract the Wombat (Nonpareil Book, 93.)

Included with 50 shorter pieces are longer meditations like 'The Poet and the Nautilus', 'Swan-upping, Indeed!' and 'How to Swat a Fly' which codifies the essentials of this simple activity in ten hilarious principles.

Genre
humor
Themes
animals
Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages

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