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The Hippopotamus

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A hippo never went to school which seems quite the catawampus tho' he's no fool it's not cool as there's no hippo campus and wild is the hippo while the horse may be tamed yet both are herbivores with large teeth to graze or crop and altho' the hippo has an equine nickname that's where the similarity stops as the hippo is the horse of the river (a horse of a different colour?) causing him to be conflicted and confused thus these words of wisdom I deliver they'll walk trot or run on the sand but the horse is not the hippo of dry land so when he did wonder why to clarify then classify after several lobotomi he was heard to query "What kind of hippopotami?"

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