Jaspistos

A good innings

In Competition No. 2452 you were invited to write an elegy on the death

issue 22 July 2006

In Competition No. 2452 you were invited to write an elegy on the death, in Queensland, Australia, of a 176-year-old tortoise called Harriet, who had met Darwin in the Galapagos Islands and was for most of her life wrongly thought to be male.
D.H. Lawrence, Marianne Moore and Ogden Nash have all written lyrically about tortoises, so you were in good company.

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