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BUTTERFLIES AS "POULTRY."
t j.hs> c:-se or the .Marseilles Customs Ciii-ei-s wno assessed an Egyptian mummy as "dried fish" had a parallel a snort while si sice in New York. A naturalist in Africa sent home a case of tropical butteiilies, and the Customs cy.cnoL-iiics were perplexed. In the end tae.y taxed them us "poultry," because ■Juiv had wings. As the scientific victmi remarked, "They would probably have put a consignment of archangels in the same class for the same reason."
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 25 October 1912, Page 3
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81BUTTERFLIES AS "POULTRY." Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 25 October 1912, Page 3
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