Will Cuppy
Will Cuppy
William Jacob "Will" Cuppywas an American humorist and literary critic, known for his satirical books about nature and historical figures...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 August 1884
CountryUnited States of America
florida three alligators
[Footnote:] Three million alligators were killed in Florida between 1880 and 1900. Goody!
fun hard-work stories
The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes.
embroidery males female
The male is colored much more gorgeously than the female so that he can be shot and made into feather embroidery.
mistake ideas honor
Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.
land tunnels relax
The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.
party flannels red
Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
peace war men
Alexander III of Macedon is known as Alexander the Great because he killed more people of more different kinds than any other man of his time.
marriage strong wife
Henry VIII had so many wives because his dynastic sense was very strong whenever he saw a maid of honour.
vipers united-states common
[Footnote:] We have no Common Vipers in the United States, but we have worse.
good-luck bees bad-luck
The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.
years bird wrens
The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.
names would-be helping
Borrowing has a bad name, but you would be surprised how it helps in a pinch.
space long four
[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.
crow innocent chaste
Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.