Once upon a night Antarctic, whilst I pondered the cathartic Power of many quaint and tragic volumes of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a clapping, As of flippers briskly slapping, slapping on my igloo floor. “’Tis some penguin feet,” I muttered, “slapping on my igloo floor —Only this and nothing more.”
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Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Pingu’
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Once upon a night Antarctic, whilst I pondered the cathartic Power of many quaint and tragic volumes of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a clapping, As of flippers briskly slapping, slapping on my igloo floor. “’Tis some penguin feet,” I muttered, “slapping on my igloo floor —Only this and nothing more.”