"raptor bird, raptor bird / it's a big ol' raptor bird"

One of the more interesting Chinese-English translations to show up in a while.

A scribal error, attractively corrected. (via)

Offered without comment: "Iceland-Moss Tea."

Though I will comment on Longfellow's arrangements for the United States: of five volumes, two are devoted to New England, one to the "Middle States" of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, one to the South, being the coastal states of Maryland through Texas, and one to the West, being everything from Ohio on. I am reminded of a famous New Yorker cover depicting the world view of New Yorkers.

---L.