Mary Ann showed me a picture of a new cane she had ordered. She said that when she saw the handle, she simply had to get it. I said, "It looks like a toucan," and immediately was reminded of a poem.
Very few can Tell the Toucan
From the Pecan — Here's a new plan:
To take the Toucan from the Tree,
Requires immense agilitee,
While anyone can pick with ease
The Pecans from the Pecan trees.
It's such an easy thing to do,
That even the Toucan he can too.
From: How to Tell the Birds From the Flowers: a Manual of Flornitology for Beginners (Nature Series No. 23) Hardcover – January 1, 1907, by Robert Williams Wood (Author, Illustrator). Dr. Wood, a world-famous physicist and inventor was a good friend of my friends growing up, the family of Dr. Alfred Theodore Goble, a professor of physics at Union College in Schenectady.
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