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Show Boys Couldn't Stump Naturalist With Humbug The boys thought it would be great sport if they could fool a certain well-known naturalist. So they killed a centipede, then carefully care-fully glued on to it a beetle's head, the wings of a butterfly and the legs of a grasshopper. They took it to the great man. "We found it out in the field," the leader of the group explained. "Can you tell us what it is?" The naturalist studied it for a time, then he asked: "Did this creature hum when caught?" "Oh, yes, sir, it did hum," came the answer. "Well, in that case," said the naturalist, "it undoubtedly is a humbugl" |