• ANTHOLOGY: Toaster's Handbook (1914) "Deer"   A poem. "Jokes, Stories and Quotations" Compiled by Peggy Edmund and Harold Workman Williams. Also, third edition printed 1916. New editions available from Gutenberg, etc. ISBN 1419162381. p 131.  [GOOGLE BOOKS]

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from Toaster's Handbook
Deer
by Ellis Parker Butler

The deer's a mighty useful beast
From Petersburg to Tennyson
For while he lives he lopes around
And when he's dead he's venison.

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