. . . Professor of University College, Oxford, being challenged to find a rhyme to ‘Timbuctoo,’ promptly replied with the following irreverent verse:
If I were a cassowary,
On the sands of Timbuctoo,
I would eat a missionary,
Skin and bones, and hymn book too.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 3, 1862, p. 2
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