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    A Little Bit Elephant
    A Little Bit Elephant
    A Little Bit Elephant
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    A Little Bit Elephant

    By Barnaby Wilde

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    Extra Quirky verses by Barnaby Wilde ... A collection of unrelated verse packed with puns weak jokes and other strange stuff, including Carpets, Cabbages, Metaphysical Geography, Donuts, Kitchen Appliances, Centaurs and much much more, with just a little bit of elephant.
    Go on, you know you want to ...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnaby Wilde
    Release dateJan 23, 2012
    ISBN9781465972613
    A Little Bit Elephant
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    Barnaby Wilde

    Barnaby Wilde is the pen name of Tim Fisher. Tim was born in 1947 in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, but grew up and was educated in the West Country. He graduated with a Physics degree in 1969 and worked in manufacturing and quality control for a multinational photographic company for 30 years before taking an early retirement to pursue other interests. He has two grown up children and currently lives happily in Devon.

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      A Little Bit Elephant - Barnaby Wilde

      A Little Bit Elephant

      a collection of verse

      by

      Barnaby Wilde

      Copyright 2012 by Barnaby Wilde

      Barnaby Wilde asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      Published by Smashwords

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Cover picture 'Elephant on a bicycle' public domain image

      Other published works by the author.

      A Question of Alignment – a Tom Fletcher novel

      I Keep Thinking It's Tuesday – a Tom Fletcher novel

      Animalia – a collection of quirky verse with an animal theme

      Life… -- a collection of verse on a vaguely 'life' related theme

      The Blind Philospher and the God of Small Things -- more verse, with a philosophical theme and bad puns.

      Not at all Rhinocerus – a collection of verse with almost no mention of rhinoceros

      Tunnel Vision – a collection of longer verses, just as quirky, but with fewer puns and absolutely no rhinoceros

      Barnaby Wilde is the pen name of Tim Fisher.

      Tim was born in 1947 in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, but grew up and was educated in the West Country. He graduated with a Physics degree in 1969 and worked in manufacturing and quality control for a multinational photographic company for 30 years before taking an early retirement to pursue other interests. He has two grown up children and currently lives happily in Devon.

      Visit www.barnaby-wilde.co.uk for the author's blog and more information about the world of Barnaby Wilde.

      Allied to carpets

      Please pause for a moment and ponder your carpet.

      Depressed and downtrodden, it’s outlook is bleak,

      when bottles are spilt on the broadloom or Wilton

      which mottle and stain the original

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