FUNGUS
We’re a very varied family, and some are “not quite nice,” While some of us are edible, and have a market price. And some of us the fairies love —they paint us many shades, And use us at their banquets in the moonlit forest glades . Red and yellow, buff and orange, pink and mauve and white, All the colours of a rainbow spread before you in a night. The children call us toadstools, and like to play among us, But grown-ups and professors always speak of us as fungus-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 152, 17 September 1927, Page 27 (Supplement)
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90FUNGUS Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 152, 17 September 1927, Page 27 (Supplement)
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