Leonard Wibberley's "The Mouse That Roared"

Loosely adapted from pages 21 - 22

"The elder Bascomb was the only living author in the whole duchy [of Grand Fenwick].

"His Grand Fenwick Birds of Prey and Fenwickian Songbirds were reckoned works the equal of anything published in Europe.

"Some quibble had once been raised by an American ornithologist that a nation no more than five miles long and three wide could hardly claim to have any native birds.

"To this Pierce Bascomb had replied, in a paper addressed to the Audobon Society and published by them, that the only being who could claim to pass with authority on the nationality of a bird was the bird itself."

¡Guau! Wow!

Hey, I love this book: it's one of my all - time favorites!