Mostly About the Tuatara
AKE New Zealand, that is-Rotorua and Mitre Peak and Stew-, well, the oysters, and the tuataras and the toheroas and Cape Kidsmackers and -well, it’s all so multifarious, or-or-something. Why, if you took a slice of Switzerland, and a cut off Norway and a bit of Dante’s Inferno, and a spot of Disney’s alfresco and mixed them up into a kind of scenic beano you’d still have New Zealand. And, speaking of Disney, there’s the tuatara. You know. I mean, it was only a fluke that New Zealand found it before Disney. In fact Disney is very upset that he didn’t think of it first. Not that anyone really knows what a tuatara really is, really. There are people who profess to know. But then there are people who profess to know what archaeopteryx is, or was. Which isn’t much help. After all, the tuatara has been here so much longer than anyone else and yet. he doesn’t really know what he is, really.("Isn’t Nature Wonderful?" Ken se Wasa? 2YA, February 7.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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176Mostly About the Tuatara New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 142, 13 March 1942, Page 5
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