The Dodo Never Had A Chance. He

The Head Of A Pike, Served At Supper, Is Said To Have Caused The Death From Terror Of Theodoric The Goth, Who Imagined The Fish's Features To Be Those Of Symmachus, A Man He Had Just Killed. But For This Story, We Of Today Would Have No Idea What Symmachus Looked Like.

Just When You're Beginning To Think Pretty Well Of People, You Run Across Somebody Who Puts Sugar On Sliced Tomatoes.

[footnote:] Pliny The Elder Described A Whale Called "balaena Or Whirlpool, Which Is So Long And Broad As To Take Up More In Length And Breadth Than Two Acres Of Ground." This Brings Up Again The Old Question: Are The Classics Doomed? Our Ancestors Believed That Four Years Of This Sort Of Information Would Inevitably Produce A President, Or At Least A Cabinet Member. It Didn't Seem To Work Out That Way.

The Earthworm Plows The Whole World With His Tunnels, Drains And Aerates The Earth… If You Ever Buy Any Land, Be Sure It Has Plenty Of Earthworms Toiling And Moiling All Day So That You Can Sit Down And Relax.

The Ancient Egyptians Considered It Good Luck To Meet A Swarm Of Bees On The Road. What They Considered Bad Luck I Couldn't Say.