I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.
'A Bad Child's Book of Beasts' (1896) 'The Hippopotamus'.
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I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.